Educational Philosophy and Theory
September 3, 2026
Ronnie Videla, Wendy Ross, May Britt Aros
1 citation
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly presented as a transformative force in education. This article argues that the challenge posed by AI is not primarily technological but pedagogical and onto-epistemological. We contend that the growing appeal of AI as an educational agent stems less from the intrinsic capabilities of the technology than from its compatibility with cognitivist and...
Adaptive Behavior
October 1, 2023
Mario Villalobos, Ronnie Videla
1 citation
4E cognition (embodied, embedded, extended, and enactive) is a growing, open and pluralistic research tradition that offers new philosophical and scientific avenues to study the mind. Both its origins and current expansive movement are theoretically and geographically diverse. Chile, the mother country of the influential biologists Francisco Varela and Humberto Maturana, represents one of its...
Adaptive Behavior
June 26, 2023
Claudio Aguayo, Ronnie Videla, Tomas Veloz
17 citations
Immersive learning environments in education provide a set of rich and diverse learning affordances (possibilities). Cognition in such environments can be considered as embodied, enacted, embedded, and extended (the 4Es of cognition). During such cognitive happenings, we assume and live as valid everything we experience. Yet in this enactive structural coupling between individuals and their...
Pacific Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning
February 17, 2023
Ronnie Videla, Eduardo Ravanal, Carolina Pino-Astorga et al.
3 citations
Creativity is considered one of the skills crucial for 21 Century to face the challenges proposed by the 2030 education agenda (Frey & Osborne 2013; OECD, 2018, Reimers & Chung 2019). In our reading, active methodologies such as project-based learning and design thinking are often seen as fundamental in favoring creativity together oriented towards individual, social, and planetary well-being...