edwin hutchins
Distributed Cognition
Edwin Hutchins, professor of Cognitive Science with the University of California San Diego and author of Cognition in the Wild (MIT Press), proposed in the 1990s a new theory of learning now known as Distributed Cognition.
The main premise of Distributed Cognition is that learning is not merely a mental activity owned by an individual; rather it is distributed over many other components including objects, interaction with other people, tools and cultural artifacts.Click here to read more »
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