Welcome to the InfoSci Platform
Reference Hub2
Sensory Extension as a Tool for Cognitive Learning

Sensory Extension as a Tool for Cognitive Learning

Michael Eisenberg, Ann Eisenberg
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 12
ISBN13: 9781466681422|ISBN10: 146668142X|EISBN13: 9781466681439
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8142-2.ch002
Cite Chapter Cite Chapter

MLA

Eisenberg, Michael, and Ann Eisenberg. "Sensory Extension as a Tool for Cognitive Learning." Handbook of Research on Maximizing Cognitive Learning through Knowledge Visualization, edited by Anna Ursyn, IGI Global, 2015, pp. 72-83. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8142-2.ch002

APA

Eisenberg, M. & Eisenberg, A. (2015). Sensory Extension as a Tool for Cognitive Learning. In A. Ursyn (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Maximizing Cognitive Learning through Knowledge Visualization (pp. 72-83). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8142-2.ch002

Chicago

Eisenberg, Michael, and Ann Eisenberg. "Sensory Extension as a Tool for Cognitive Learning." In Handbook of Research on Maximizing Cognitive Learning through Knowledge Visualization, edited by Anna Ursyn, 72-83. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2015. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8142-2.ch002

Export Reference

Mendeley
Favorite

Abstract

The practice of educational technology has long been driven by a relatively restricted set of operational metaphors: typically, computers are identified as potential “teachers” or “tutors” of material or (arguably more productively) as “learning tools” for students. Recent developments in technology suggest the advent of another, perhaps still more fruitful metaphor – namely viewing educational technology (not limited to computers) as a means of sensory extension. In this view, technology is seen not as a repository of content, but rather as an extension of scientific instrumentation (telescopes, microscopes, bubble chambers) and prosthetics (eyeglasses, cochlear implants). This chapter is intended as an initial, partly speculative exploration of what it would mean for science and arts education to rethink the role of technology in terms of sensory extension rather than classroom instruction.

Request Access

You do not own this content. Please login to recommend this title to your institution's librarian or purchase it from the IGI Global bookstore.