We’d like you to read a piece by Roy Pea about Distributed Cognition / Intelligence. This is a seminal piece that has clear implications for what it means to increasingly off-load our cognition into our environment, either onto other people, artifacts or technology.
The readings can be found here.
Pea, R. D. (1993). Practices of distributed intelligences and design for education. In G. Solomon (Ed.), Distributed cognitions: Psychological and educational considerations (pp. 47-87). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
One questions that you should consider, and likely post some thoughts about: Are the implications of distributed intelligence different with Web 2.0 technologies? If so, why? If not, why not?