Read

• Edwin Hutchins, Cognition in the Wild, Chapter 9
• Edwin Hutchins, “Imagining the Cognitive Life of Things”

Methods Discussion: Cognitive Ethnography II

• Read: Robert F. Williams, “Using Cognitive Ethnography to Study Instruction”
• Activity: Start Interview Project

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Read

• Edwin Hutchins, Cognition in the Wild, Chapters 6-8

Methods Discussion: Photo Documentation of Cognitive Activity

• Activity: Photo Documentation Project (due in class)

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Read

• Edwin Hutchins, Cognition in the Wild, Chapters 4-5
  • For the perplexed: Edwin Hutchins, “Cognition, Distributed,” International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences.

Methods Discussion: Cognitive Ethnography I

• Read:
  • Ed Hutchins, Digital Ethnography Workbench Manifesto
  • Charles Goodwin, Professional Vision 
• Activity: Start Photo Documentation Project

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Read

• Edwin Hutchins, Cognition in the Wild, Introduction, Chapters 1-3
  • For the perplexed: Edwin Hutchins, “Cognition, Distributed,” International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences.

Methods Discussion: Human Subjects, Ethics, & the IRB

• Complete NIH Protecting Human Research Subjects training.
• Presentation on the Institutional Review Board by Sanaz Okhovat, Senior Director, Office of Research Integrity

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Read

• Jean Lave, Cognition in Practice, Chapters 5-8

Methods Discussion: Action Research

• Read: Ned Kock, Action Research: Its Nature and Relationship to Human-Computer Interaction, The Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction
  

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Read

• Jean Lave, Cognition in Practice, Chapters 1-4

Methods Discussion: Ethnography & Participant Observation

• Read:
  • Merrigan & Huston, “Ethnographic Research”
  • Lindlof & Taylor, “New Media and Participant Observation”
  • Going Further: Lindlof & Taylor, “Participating, Observing, and Recording Social Action”
  • Going Further: Lindlof & Taylor, “Qualitative Interviewing”

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In this week’s class, we will review the history of different traditions in psychology, philosophy of mind, and cognitive science, with special attention to mainstream cognitive science and the traditions in psychology and cognitive science that influence the alternative approaches we discuss in the course.

Read

Focus on texts in bold. Familiarize yourself with the other texts, but don’t stress too much about the details.

• Paul Thagard, “Cognitive Science,” Stanford Encyclopedia to Philosophy
• Andy Clark, selections from Mindware
  • Going Further: Andy Clark, “Cognitive Technology” (from Mindware)
• John Dewey, “The Reflex-Arc Concept in Psychology”
  • Going Further: Mark Johnson, “Cognitive science and Dewey’s theory of mind, thought, and language,” Cambridge Companion to Dewey
  • Going Further: Matthias Jung, “John Dewey and action,” Cambridge Companion to Dewey
• Lev Vygotsky, “Consciousness as a problem in the psychology of behavior”
  • Going Further: James Wertsch, Vygotsky and the Social Formation of Mind
• J.J. Gibson, “The Ecological Approach to the Visual Perception of Pictures”
  • Going Further: E. Bruce Goldstein, “The Ecology of J. J. Gibson’s Perception”

Methods Discussion: Cognitive Analysis

• Activity: Cognitive Diary (due in class)

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This week we will get an overview of the course topics and assignments, review the syllabus, and discuss the following articles.

Read

• Shaffer & Clinton, “Toolforthoughts: Reexamining Thinking in the Digital Age” 
• N. Katherine Hayles, How We Became Posthuman, Prologue
• Jean Lave, “What’s Special about Experiments as Contexts for Thinking”
  

Assignment

• Read articles BEFORE class.
• Leave a comment below and tell us something about yourself. (You don’t have to use your full name, but enter your UTD email address (it won’t be published) or otherwise enough information for me to figure out who you are.)

Lecture Notes

• The Dominant Paradigm
• Alternatives: Concepts, Theories, & Methods

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