Socially Distributed Cognition - Quotes

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On educational psychology:

People think in conjunction and partnership with others and with the help of culturally provided tools and implements. —Salomon, 1997 p. xiii

On cognitive science:

Nervous systems do not form representations of the world, they can only form representations of interactions with the world. The emphasis on finding and describing "knowledge structures" that are somewhere "inside" the individual encourages us to overlook the fact that human cognition is always situated in a complex sociocultural world and cannot be unaffected by it. —Hutchins, 1995 p. xiii

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