reflections on gordon pask's adaptive teaching concepts and their relevance to modern knowledge systems
This paper revisits work carried out when the author worked at System Research Ltd the freelance cybernetics research group founded and headed by Gordon Pask in the 1960s. It presents some historical background and focusses on just two of the many strands which emerged from the convergence of digital simulation techniques on the multidisciplinary ferment of cybernetic thinking of that time. First we'll look at computer models of learning processes and their relevance to human computer interaction and, second, we'll consider the broader aspects of systems theory and the foundation that provided for the emergence of knowledge systems.The paper then relates that early work to current thinking about the evolution of the modern human mind, the emergence of computer based cognitive systems and the implications for future creative knowledge building.
adaptive knowledge systems cybernetics learning cognitive