Intelligence and Technology : The Impact of Tools on the Nature and Development of Human Abilities

by Sternberg, Robert J.; Preiss, David D.

• ISBN13: 9780805849271
• ISBN10: 0805849270
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-05-13
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

In this volume, Robert J. Sternberg and David D. Preiss bring together different perspectives on understanding the impact of various technologies on human abilities, competencies, and expertise. The inclusive range of historical, comparative, sociocultural, cognitive, educational, industrial/organizational, and human factors approaches will stimulate international multi-disciplinary discussion. Major questions that are addressed include: *What is the impact of different technologies on human abilities? *How does technology enhance or limit human intellectual functioning? *What is the cognitive impact of complex technologies? *What is the cognitive impact of the transfer of technologies? *How can we design technologies that foster intellectual growth? *How does technology mediate the impact of cultural variables on human intellectual functioning? Part I addresses the history of cognitive technologies and how they have evolved with culture, but at the same time helped culture evolve. Part II focuses on how educational technologies affect the ways in which students and others think. The topic of Part III is technology in the world of work. Part IV deals with the interface between intelligence and technology. The diversity and richness of technology relates to different forms of abilities, competencies, and expertise. In consequence, many psychologists, educators, and others are interested in exploring the ways in which technology and human abilities interact, but lack a handy source of information to satisfy their interest. This book provides researchers and students in these areas with relevant perspectives and information.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Preface	xiii
List of Contributors	xxiii
PART I COGNITIVE TECHNOLOGIES IN HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL EVOLUTION	1	(68)
Technology and Cognition Amplification	3	(26)
Raymond S. Nickerson
Technology and the Development of Intelligence: From the Loom to the Computer	29	(26)
Ashley E. Maynard
Kaveri Subrahmanyam
Patricia M. Greenfield
Technology and Intelligence in a Literate Society	55	(14)
David R. Olson
PART II COGNITIVE CONSEQUENCES OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES	69	(34)
Do Technologies Make Us Smarter? Intellectual Amplification With, Of, and Through Technology	71	(16)
Gavriel Salomon
David Perkins
Cognitive Tools for the Mind: The Promises of Technology---Cognitive Amplifiers or Bionic Prosthetics?	87	(16)
Susanne P. Lajoie
PART III TECHNOLOGICAL PARTNERSHIPS AT WORK	103	(78)
Work in Progress: Reinventing Intelligence for an Invented World	105	(30)
Alex Kirlik
Cooperation Between Human Cognition and Technology in Dynamic Situations	135	(24)
Jean-Michel Hoc
Transferring Technologies to Developing Countries: A Cognitive and Cultural Approach	159	(22)
Carlos Diaz-Canepa
PART IV INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGIES AND TECHNOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCES	181	(48)
Technologies for Working Intelligence	183	(26)
David D. Preiss
Robert J. Sternberg
We Have Met Technology and It Is Us	209	(20)
Michael Cole
Jan Derry
Author Index	229	(8)
Subject Index	237