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<li>I have had sustained roles in academic governance, particularly with respect to technology and education, as Chair of the Department of Communication, Computing, and Technology in Education at TC (1982-2002), as head of the Coordinating Committee on the PhD in Education at Columbia (1996-2011), and as one of the organizers and a member of its Board of Directors for the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning. </li> | <li>I have had sustained roles in academic governance, particularly with respect to technology and education, as Chair of the Department of Communication, Computing, and Technology in Education at TC (1982-2002), as head of the Coordinating Committee on the PhD in Education at Columbia (1996-2011), and as one of the organizers and a member of its Board of Directors for the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning. </li> | ||
<li>Over the span of my career, I have expressed my ideas and concerns in diverse texts. In them, I have dealt with many topics, drawing on an extensive intellectual background. As a writer, I aspire to be clear and engaging while respecting the complexity and difficulty of the matters I address. I think we live in a culture in which we vastly overproduce cultural materials and consume them with a serious deficiency of attention. I feel a responsibility to resist those conditions by writing for readers who will pay close attention to texts they believe will have importance over an extended period.</li></ul> | <li>Over the span of my career, I have expressed my ideas and concerns in diverse texts. In them, I have dealt with many topics, drawing on an extensive intellectual background. As a writer, I aspire to be clear and engaging while respecting the complexity and difficulty of the matters I address. I think we live in a culture in which we vastly overproduce cultural materials and consume them with a serious deficiency of attention. I feel a responsibility to resist those conditions by writing for readers who will pay close attention to texts they believe will have importance over an extended period.</li></ul> | ||
<p>Here | <p>Here's a selection of my writing with links to the full texts.</p> | ||
<ul><li>"Machines and Vitalists: Reflections on the Ideology of Cybernetics," <i>The American Scholar</i> (35:2, Spring 1966, pp. 249-58). [https://rmcc4.com/pdf/1966_machines_and_vitalists.pdf Link]). A heady start, this essay came out in a special issue on "The Electronic Revolution" along with contributions by Marshall McLuhan, R. Buckminster Fuller, Lynn White, Jr., Jacob Bronowski, Herbert A. Simon, Richard Hoggart, and so on. I made a point about human intelligence that's still relevant to the gush of wonder about AI. </li> | <ul><li>"Machines and Vitalists: Reflections on the Ideology of Cybernetics," <i>The American Scholar</i> (35:2, Spring 1966, pp. 249-58). [https://rmcc4.com/pdf/1966_machines_and_vitalists.pdf Link]). A heady start, this essay came out in a special issue on "The Electronic Revolution" along with contributions by Marshall McLuhan, R. Buckminster Fuller, Lynn White, Jr., Jacob Bronowski, Herbert A. Simon, Richard Hoggart, and so on. I made a point about human intelligence that's still relevant to the gush of wonder about AI. </li> | ||
<li><i>Man and His Circumstances: Ortega as Educator</i> (New York: Teachers College Press, 1971, xviii, 649 pp. [https://rmcc4.com/pdf/1971_man_circumstances_all.pdf Link]) A full intellectual biography of the Spanish thinker, José Ortega y Gasset. The book culminated my studies of Ortega from 1960 to 1971 and it was named the "Outstanding Education Book of 1971" by <i>School and Society</i>." </li> | <li><i>Man and His Circumstances: Ortega as Educator</i> (New York: Teachers College Press, 1971, xviii, 649 pp. [https://rmcc4.com/pdf/1971_man_circumstances_all.pdf Link]) A full intellectual biography of the Spanish thinker, José Ortega y Gasset. The book culminated my studies of Ortega from 1960 to 1971 and it was named the "Outstanding Education Book of 1971" by <i>School and Society</i>." </li> | ||