I. Brief biography1James Jerome Gibson was born on January 27, 1904 in McConnelsville, Ohio, United States and died on December 11, 1979. He was an experimental psychologist whose work focused primarily on visual perception. He received his PhD. in Psychology from Princeton University in 1928 and joined the faculty of Smith College. During World War II he served in the Air Force (1942-1946). In the military, Gibson developed tests used to select potential pilots. In doing so, he observed that pilots orient themselves according to the characteristics of the Earth's surface rather than through their kinesthetic senses (Hochberg, 1994). After the war he returned to Smith College before transferring to Cornell University in 1949. He retired in 1972 from Cornell University.II. What is Gibson famous for? Gibson (1979) developed an ecological approach to the study of visual perception, which is a new and radical approach to the entire field of psychology according to which humans perceive their environment directly without the mediation of cognitive processes or mental entities. According to his claim of direct perception, there is enough information in our environment to make sense of the world (Gibson, 1977). Gibson (1979) stated that “direct perception is an activity aimed at obtaining information from the range of ambient light” (p. 147), and further defined it as an information gathering process. That is, no mental processing is necessary since every object and event in the world has intrinsic meanings that are detected and exploited by humans. So his perception is based on information, not sensations, which is at odds with the conventional perspective of perception. With this direct perception in mind, Gibson (1966) coined the term "affordances", which are q...... half of the document ...... to understand how learning can take place within environments of learning supported by technology and what the role of technology is, taking into account its functional value (i.e., affordance) that such technologies and environments have. References Gibson, J. J. (1966). The senses considered as perceptual systems. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin. Gibson, J. J. (1977). The theory of affordances. In R. E. Shaw & J. Bransford (Eds.), Perceiving, acting, and knowing: Toward an ecological psychology (pp. 67–82). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. Gibson, J. J. (1979). The ecological approach to visual perception. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin.Hochberg, J. (1994). James Jerome Gibson. Biographical Memoirs, 63, 151-171. James J. Gibson. (n.d.). In the Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved from http://www. bianca.com/EBchecked/topic/233285/James-J-Gibson