Of Mind and Media: How Culture's Symbolic Forms Affect Learning and Thinking

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 375-380

  Salomon, Gavriel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

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References (21)

1. D. J. Bolter, Turing's Man: Western Culture in the Computer Age (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984).
2. Hugo Munsterberg, The Film: A Psychological Study (1916; reprint, New York: Dover Publications, 1970).
3. See, for example, John R. Searle, Minds, Brains, and Science (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1984).
4. Roy D. Pea, "Practices of Distributed Intelligence and Designs for Education," in Gavriel Salomon, ed., Distributed Cognitions (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993), pp. 47-87.
5. Marlene Scardamalia et al., "Computer-Supported Intentional Learning Environments," Journal of Educational Computing Research, vol. 5, 1989, pp. 51-68.
6. See, for example, Ernst H. Gombrich, Art and Illusion (New York: Bollinger Foundation, 1960); and Nelson Goodman, The Languages of Art (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1968).
7. See, for example, Ernst H. Gombrich, Art and Illusion (New York: Bollinger Foundation, 1960); and Nelson Goodman, The Languages of Art (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1968).
8. David R. Olson, Introduction to David R. Olson, ed., Media and Symbols: The Forms of Expression, Communication, and Education: 73rd NSSE Yearbook, Part I (Chicago: National Society for the Study of Education, University of Chicago Press, 1974), p. 8.
9. Ludwig von Bertalanffy, "On the Definition of the Symbol," in Joseph R. Royce, ed., Psychology and the Symbol (New York: Random House, 1965), p. 41.
10. Howard Gardner, Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences (New York: Basic Books, 1983).
11. Gavriel Salomon, Interaction of Media, Cognition, and Learning (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1979; Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1994).
12. Elihu Katz, Jay G. Blumler, and Michael Gurevitch, "Utilization of Mass Communication by the Individual," in Jay G. Blumler and Elihu Katz, eds., The Uses of Mass Communications (Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage, 1974), p. 26.
13. Gavriel Salomon, "Television Is 'Easy' and Print is 'Tough': The Differential Investment of Mental Effort in Learning as a Function of Perceptions and Attributions," Journal of Educational Psychology, vol. 76, 1984, pp. 647-58.
14. Gavriel Salomon and Tamar Leigh, "Predispositions Debilitate Learning from Television," Journal of Communication, vol. 34, 1984, pp. 119-35.
15. Salomon, "Television Is 'Easy.'"
16. Benjamin Whorf, Language, Thought, and Reality (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1956), p. 212.
17. See, for example, Michael Cole and Sylvia Scribner, Culture and Thought (New York: Wiley, 1974).
18. Salomon, Interaction of Media, Cognition, and Learning.
19. Thomas Hatch and Howard Gardner, "Finding Cognition in the Classroom: An Expanded View of Human Intelligence," in Salomon, Distributed Cognitions.
20. Gavriel Salomon and David Perkins, "Learning in Wonderland: What Do Computers Really Offer in Education?," in Steven Kerr, ed., NSSE Yearbook (Chicago: National Society for the Study of Education, University of Chicago Press, forthcoming).
21. Herbert A. Simon, The Sciences of the Artificial (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1982).