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* I have been creative and successful in generating externally funded research and development projects to advance the use of digital technologies in academic situations, K-12, and post-secondary. , primarily as the founding director of the Institute for Learning Technologies at Teachers College (1982-2002) and as a senior research scholar in the Office of the Vice-Provost of Columbia University (1994-2001), and secondarily with other groups such as the New Laboratory for Teaching and Learning at the Dalton School and at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. Those projects shared a common purpose: improving persons' educational experience by interacting in small groups with cultural assets through networked multimedia. | * I have been creative and successful in generating externally funded research and development projects to advance the use of digital technologies in academic situations, K-12, and post-secondary. , primarily as the founding director of the Institute for Learning Technologies at Teachers College (1982-2002) and as a senior research scholar in the Office of the Vice-Provost of Columbia University (1994-2001), and secondarily with other groups such as the New Laboratory for Teaching and Learning at the Dalton School and at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. Those projects shared a common purpose: improving persons' educational experience by interacting in small groups with cultural assets through networked multimedia. | ||
* 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. | * 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. | ||
* 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. Here are | * 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. Here are citations to a selection of my work and to my academic CV [https://rmcc4.com/pdf/rmcc_current_cv.pdf Link]. | ||
** "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]). My first publication, in a special issue on "The Electronic Revolution," with contributions by Marshall McLuhan, R. Buckminster Fuller, Lynn White, Jr., Jacob Bronowski, Herbert A. Simon, Richard Hoggart, and so on. It made a point about human intelligence still relevant to the gush of wonder about AI. | ** "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]). My first publication, in a special issue on "The Electronic Revolution," with contributions by Marshall McLuhan, R. Buckminster Fuller, Lynn White, Jr., Jacob Bronowski, Herbert A. Simon, Richard Hoggart, and so on. It made a point about human intelligence still relevant to the gush of wonder about AI. | ||
** <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>." | ** <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>." | ||