Computers As Cognitive Tools (Technology in Education)

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Summary: An essential reading for cognitive tools research.
Review: The first and throughout book on the computer-based cognitive tools. Dividing the research and opinions on two camps, that of student modeller AI camp and the tool oriented camp, the editors attemp to find a middle ground for the issues.

I found it to be one of my essential books for my doctoral dissertation which is also about the use of computer-based cognitive tools in music education.(my dissertation is listed in the abstracts)

The book includes a fairly good definition of the concept of a computer-based cognitive tool, and has grounds for applying the concept to other computer technologies.