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Cognitive Enhancement Using ICT and Its Ethical Implications
Spyros Doukakis1, Giannis Stamatellos2, Nektaria Glinou2
1The American College of Greece, 6 Gravias Street, GR-153 42 Aghia Paraskevi, Athens, Greece. sdoukakis@acg.edu.
Abstract:
The utilization of digital tools aiming at the cognitive enhancement of students and adults, so that they can achieve better performance and professional or academic success, has increased in recent years. This paper focuses on ICT tools such as computer games, programming languages and educational software as means for cognitive enhancement and attempts to highlight their contributions. Issues of design and the limitations of digital tools are discussed. In the final section, the ethical implications of using educational ICT tools for cognitive enhancement from a virtue ethics perspective are presented.
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