The Educational Trap of Cognitive Outsourcing and Its Crossing in The Age of Digital Intelligence
Cognitive outsourcing is an intentional process in which humans resort to external tools to deal with the environment,and it is also an essential educational foundation to realize its functions.The justification for cognitive outsourcing has been studied in fields such as philosophy,psychology,and brain science with varying positive degrees.But the instrumental rationality in digital Intelligence age has expanded so much,leading it to an unexpected educational trap,manifested mainly in the technological backlash to break through the intermediary orientation,inducing the legitimacy crisis of education.With the knowledge processing logic of intelligent machines blurring the humanistic characteristics of education and the interference of reductive algorithms to predictive minds,it challenges the unity of knowledge and practice,a significant principle of education.This paper argues that through the strategies of"an educated people"to regulate the cognitive subject,to follow the educational standards of human nature,to use"the world of facts"to understand the cognitive object,to regain the cultural value of education;to promote"reflective thinking"as a cognitive way to achieve the unity of education sphere,etc.Through these strategies,we may avoid the educational trap of cognitive outsourcing.
the age of digital intelligencecognitive outsourcingartificial intelligencehuman-computer cooperationpedagogical reform