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Technology has changed the way one thinks and in turn makes decisions because more
information is available on which to base perceptions/concepts/decisions. Cognitive Consultants
(N.D.) states, as technologies are used in our cognitive processes, as they cognitize with us and
for us, they influence and impact the very way we acquire information and think, and affect the
very nature of cognition (p.1). I think that education is based on the intake and transfer of
information and technology increases the flow of information that stimulates cognitive processes
that in turn promote learning. Thus, I think the technological revolution was most impactful on
education because it represented an innovative disruption to the cognitive revolution that
synergized/enhanced the cognitive revolution impact on education while impacting a greater
culture shock to the education community (society).
Do you think that research on thinking, processes or environment has had the most impact
on the evolution of instructional design? Explain.
If one knows how another person processes information and why they process it a specific
way, one can more readily design instruction that reach the learner on the learner's level and in
turn escalate the learner to new heights of conceptualizing. Research on thinking, process and
environment have revealed niches of insight that may aid in lesson planning through discovery of
learner's thought process , expertise, social or individual cognitive learners. For instructors this
means digger deeper into how an expert can automatically complete preliminary
study/performance tasks automatically which frees the mind up for more complex tasks or
concepts, how social learning and/or individual psychological learning affects
perception/performance and how initial thoughts/concepts are more useful than starting from a
blank page of memory. (Salvalainen, 2009). I think learning environment research has the
greatest impact to education because finding out how the learner's interact within one's own mind
and learn from the social environment allows the instructor to plan lessons based on concepts
that include the awareness of the thinking patterns/processes indigenous to that individual or
group.
References
Cognitive Consultants International (N.D.), Cognition and technology. Retrieved from
http://cognitiveconsultantsinternational.com/index.php?siteID=4
Reiser, R. & Dempsey, J. (2012). Trends and issues in instructional design and technology (3rd
ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson
Savalianen, R. (2009). Information use and information processing: Comparison
References
Reiser, R. & Dempsey, J. (2012). Trends and issues in instructional design and technology (3rd
ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson.