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<p style="text-indent: 0.13in">To further that goal at TC, I organized the [https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/tmsnr0b84oa1cyns1oq1o/1999-ILT-Plan-McClintock.pdf?rlkey=nq7a825ov4w9hahfkhpbodc43&dl=0 Institute for Learning Technologies] (ILT) in 1984 and directed it until 2002, prototyping advanced curricular resources for use over the Internet. Acting on my ideas about education and historical change, I developed [https://www.dropbox.com/home/0-Gesamtschriften-Robbie?preview=1990-The-Cumulative-Curriculum-Multi-Media-and-the-Making-of-a-New-Educational-System.pdf The Cumulative Curriculum Proposal] (1990-91), which led to two large projects — [https://www.dropbox.com/home/0-Gesamtschriften-Robbie?di=left_nav_browse&preview=1992-Risk-and-Renewal-Dalton-Year-1-Summaries.pdf The Dalton Technology Plan] (1991–1996) and [https://www.dropbox.com/home/0-Gesamtschriften-Robbie?di=left_nav_browse&preview=1996_Eiffel-Project-1-1-McClintock.pdf The Eiffel Project] (1996–2001). I raised over $20 million in gifts and grants to prototype places for study in New York City schools, public and private, and in Columbia University. In two online essays, I wrote about digital technologies as agents of cultural change, [https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/jaa81sfrqpd2dgwe5f6q6/1992-Power-and-Pedagogy-McClintock.pdf?rlkey=11m299rgo5d5dzjfw2bsmwk4v&dl=0 Power and Pedagogy] (1992) and [https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/um8rmmmxbd1gg6j2n43wu/1999-Manifesto-McClintock.pdf?rlkey=15j1hebdi721jd57j05bfcy83&dl=0 The Educators Manifesto] (1999), and on the eve of the dot-com crash, I wrote [https://www.dropbox.com/home/0-Gesamtschriften-Robbie?di=left_nav_browse&preview=2000-Smart-Cities-New-York-McClintock-1.pdf# Smart Cities — New York: Electronic Education for the New Millennium] (2000), the pedagogical rationale for a very large, ill-fated initiative under-taken by the NYC Board of Education, Accenture, and a consortium of major tech companies.</p> | <p style="text-indent: 0.13in">To further that goal at TC, I organized the [https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/tmsnr0b84oa1cyns1oq1o/1999-ILT-Plan-McClintock.pdf?rlkey=nq7a825ov4w9hahfkhpbodc43&dl=0 Institute for Learning Technologies] (ILT) in 1984 and directed it until 2002, prototyping advanced curricular resources for use over the Internet. Acting on my ideas about education and historical change, I developed [https://www.dropbox.com/home/0-Gesamtschriften-Robbie?preview=1990-The-Cumulative-Curriculum-Multi-Media-and-the-Making-of-a-New-Educational-System.pdf The Cumulative Curriculum Proposal] (1990-91), which led to two large projects — [https://www.dropbox.com/home/0-Gesamtschriften-Robbie?di=left_nav_browse&preview=1992-Risk-and-Renewal-Dalton-Year-1-Summaries.pdf The Dalton Technology Plan] (1991–1996) and [https://www.dropbox.com/home/0-Gesamtschriften-Robbie?di=left_nav_browse&preview=1996_Eiffel-Project-1-1-McClintock.pdf The Eiffel Project] (1996–2001). I raised over $20 million in gifts and grants to prototype places for study in New York City schools, public and private, and in Columbia University. In two online essays, I wrote about digital technologies as agents of cultural change, [https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/jaa81sfrqpd2dgwe5f6q6/1992-Power-and-Pedagogy-McClintock.pdf?rlkey=11m299rgo5d5dzjfw2bsmwk4v&dl=0 Power and Pedagogy] (1992) and [https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/um8rmmmxbd1gg6j2n43wu/1999-Manifesto-McClintock.pdf?rlkey=15j1hebdi721jd57j05bfcy83&dl=0 The Educators Manifesto] (1999), and on the eve of the dot-com crash, I wrote [https://www.dropbox.com/home/0-Gesamtschriften-Robbie?di=left_nav_browse&preview=2000-Smart-Cities-New-York-McClintock-1.pdf# Smart Cities — New York: Electronic Education for the New Millennium] (2000), the pedagogical rationale for a very large, ill-fated initiative under-taken by the NYC Board of Education, Accenture, and a consortium of major tech companies.</p> | ||
<div class="inbox" style="align: center; width: 400px | <div class="inbox" style="align: center; width: 400px;">For a profile putting my technology work in the context of my career, see:<br> | ||
[https://www.tc.columbia.edu/articles/2010/december/the-accidental-technologist/ <i>TC Today</i>, December 2010].</p></div> | Joe Levine, "The Accidental Technologist,"<br>[https://www.tc.columbia.edu/articles/2010/december/the-accidental-technologist/ <i>TC Today</i>, December 2010].</p></div> | ||
<p style="text-indent: 0.13in">Over the past 20 years, I’ve stayed away from market-driven innovation to concentrate on scholarship and technical initiatives “for their own sake.” In [https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/hwto8no5s4dryqn80mjnt/2005-Homeless-Intellect-McClintock.pdf?rlkey=85rlwd3hx28czrpw7juhl99yw&dl=0 <i>Homeless in the House of Intellect: Formative Justice and Education as an Academic Study</i>] (2005), I explored the special importance the academic study of education had at a time when the radical transformation of educational institutions was getting underway. In [https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/swqby2yfm80k20knhtxrj/2012-Enough-McClintock.pdf?rlkey=zdddnknc3365wagig8j7q0jxf&dl=0 <i>Enough: A Pedagogic Speculation</i>] (2012), I criticized present-day thinking about education and public life from an imagined perspective, far in the future, when <i>enough</i>, neither <i>too much nor too little</i>, had supplanted the principle of <i>more</i> as the basis for exercising judgment and legitimating authority. Subsequently, I published an extended essay — [https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/d3l0f720x75hwi2zqbre9/2019-Formative-Justice-published-paperback.pdf?rlkey=esbx65twjy1wzkc7cdsz18gts&dl=0 <i>Formative Justice</i>] (2019) — that brings the speculations put forward in <i>Enough</i> more concretely into the contemporary context. Since 2019, I have labored to prototype a digital correlate to the personal study or studio that cultured persons with means have used as favored | <p style="text-indent: 0.13in">Over the past 20 years, I’ve stayed away from market-driven innovation to concentrate on scholarship and technical initiatives “for their own sake.” In [https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/hwto8no5s4dryqn80mjnt/2005-Homeless-Intellect-McClintock.pdf?rlkey=85rlwd3hx28czrpw7juhl99yw&dl=0 <i>Homeless in the House of Intellect: Formative Justice and Education as an Academic Study</i>] (2005), I explored the special importance the academic study of education had at a time when the radical transformation of educational institutions was getting underway. In [https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/swqby2yfm80k20knhtxrj/2012-Enough-McClintock.pdf?rlkey=zdddnknc3365wagig8j7q0jxf&dl=0 <i>Enough: A Pedagogic Speculation</i>] (2012), I criticized present-day thinking about education and public life from an imagined perspective, far in the future, when <i>enough</i>, neither <i>too much nor too little</i>, had supplanted the principle of <i>more</i> as the basis for exercising judgment and legitimating authority. Subsequently, I published an extended essay — [https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/d3l0f720x75hwi2zqbre9/2019-Formative-Justice-published-paperback.pdf?rlkey=esbx65twjy1wzkc7cdsz18gts&dl=0 <i>Formative Justice</i>] (2019) — that brings the speculations put forward in <i>Enough</i> more concretely into the contemporary context. Since 2019, I have labored to prototype a digital correlate to the personal study or studio that with cultured persons with means have used as favored work spaces for many generations — [https://aplacetostudy.org/wiki/Main_Page <i>a place to study</i>]. Check it our if you like — a second generation prototype will go on line towards early 2025.</p> | ||
<p style="text-indent: 0.13in">Presently, I’m depressed by the level of anger in us all, and a bit skeptical about the AI buzz. I’ve always thought AI should stand for <b>Augmenting</b> the <b>Intelligence</b> we use to nurture our human fulfillment, an intent I long ago voiced in the <i>American Scholar</i> through “[https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/yfb0xr9n560ixr6020kxe/1966-Machines-and-Vitalists-McClintock.pdf?rlkey=czywwdn8m7asggjx9s9xigsy8&dl=0 Machines and Vitalists: Reflections on the Ideology of Cybernetics]” (1966).</p> | <p style="text-indent: 0.13in">Presently, I’m depressed by the level of anger in us all, and a bit skeptical about the AI buzz. I’ve always thought AI should stand for <b>Augmenting</b> the <b>Intelligence</b> we use to nurture our human fulfillment, an intent I long ago voiced in the <i>American Scholar</i> through “[https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/yfb0xr9n560ixr6020kxe/1966-Machines-and-Vitalists-McClintock.pdf?rlkey=czywwdn8m7asggjx9s9xigsy8&dl=0 Machines and Vitalists: Reflections on the Ideology of Cybernetics]” (1966).</p> | ||
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[mailto:robbie@aplacetostudy.org robbie@aplacetostudy.org]<br/>4 Green Leaf Court<br/>Princeton, NJ 08540<br/>646 464-4531</p> | [mailto:robbie@aplacetostudy.org robbie@aplacetostudy.org]<br/>4 Green Leaf Court<br/> Princeton, NJ 08540<br/> 646 464-4531</p> |