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According to Wikipedia , Neil Postman was an American author, educator, media theorist and cultural critic, who eschewed digital technology, including personal computers, mobile devices, and cruise control in cars, and was critical of uses of technology, such as personal computers in school. He is best known for twenty books regarding technology and education, including Amusing Ourselves to Death , Conscientious Objections , Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology , The Disappearance of Childhood and The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School .
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1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 0 125 250 375 500 625 750 875 1000 1125 1250 1375 1500 1625 Published Works "Mix a Little Folly with Your Wisdom"--Horace@@@Children and Television.@@@Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. (1987) Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology (1993) Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985) (892)Teaching As a Subversive Activity (1969) (751)The end of education : redefining the value of school (1996) The Disappearance of Childhood (1985) Teaching as a conserving activity (1969) (255)The End of Education (1996) (168)Kinderculture: The Corporate Construction of Childhood (1997) Marshall McLuhan: The Medium and the Messenger (1989) (92)Conscientious Objections: Stirring Up Trouble About Language, Technology and Education (1988) (90)Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future (1999) (89)ADDITIONAL READINGS (1964) The Politics of Reading. (1970) (73)How to Watch TV News (1992) (61)The School Book (1974) MYTHS, MEN, & BEER: AN ANALYSIS OF BEER COMMERCIALS ON BROADCAST TELEVISION, 1987 (1987) (34)Crazy talk, stupid talk (1976) The Soft Revolution: A Student Handbook for Turning Schools Around (1971) (27)The First Curriculum: Comparing School and Television. (1979) (21)Will Our Children Only Inherit the Wind? (2000) Illiteracy in America: Position Papers: The Politics of Reading (1970) The School Book; for People Who Want to Know What All the Hollering is About (1973) (16)Engaging Students in the Great Conversation. (1983) (15)The Information Age (2004) Marshall McLuhan : the medium and the messenger : a biography (1998) (14)The Disappearing Child. (1983) (14)Post-Intellectualism and the Decline of Democracy: The Failure of Reason and Responsibility in the Twentieth Century (1996) Order in the Classroom (1979) (13)The Re-Enchantment of Learning. (1990) (12)The Day Our Children Disappear: Predictions of a Media Ecologist. (1981) (12)How to recognize a good school (1973) (11)Making a Living, Making a Life: Technology Reconsidered. (1995) (11)The Information Environment. (1979) Media Ecology Education (2006) Linguistics : A Revolution in Teaching (1966) Language Education in a Knowledge Context. (1980) (7)Linguistics and the Pursuit of Relevance (1967) Defending Ourselves Against Technology (1997) A BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT (1975) The Educationist as Painkiller. (1988) (3)Discovering your language (1963) Teaching as a Conserving Activity/ By Neil Postman (1979) (3)A Healthy Approach to Classroom Computers : Preventing a Generation of Students From Developing Repetitive Strain Injuries (2002) (3)The new technology: Three views (1993) (3)[Media Ecology: Communication as Context]. (1974) (2)Television and the teaching of English (2012) (2)Childhood: Can it Be Preserved? (1985) THE BLURRING OF CHILDHOOD AND THE MEDIA (1987) Information, knowledge, wisdom (2000) (2)Grammar and the Education Controversy (1960) My Graduation Speech (2008) The New Literacy. (1971) (1)Language in America (1969) (1)Fine-Tuning the Balance between Education and a Media Culture. (1980) (1)Hope, Gods, and Corporate Culture: Three Paths for the Future of America's Children@@@Horace's Hope: What Works for the American High School@@@The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School@@@Kinderculture: The Corporate Construction of Childhood (1997) SCHOOLS AND AUTHORITY (1975) What An Educator Means When He Says... (1976) (1)The Ecology of Learning. (1974) Media Ecology: A Growing Perspective. (1973) (1)Language and systmes (1966) (0)Love your machines (2009) What Does the Future Hold for Public Education Keynote Address (1995) (0)POINT OF VIEW (1977) Illich, Pro and Con. (1971) (0)Chapter X: Media and Technology as Educators (1985) How To Recognize a Good School. Fastback Series, No. 30. (1973) (0)BLOWING THE WHISTLE (1977) Aimez vos machines (2009) What Should All Learn (1987) (0)SCHEDULE OF DISCUSSION AND READINGS Logic and Belief (2011) (0)Curriculum Change and Technology. (1970) (0)CRAP DETECTION (1975) Landmarks in the Literature: Where Have All the Critics Gone?. (1977) (0)Whatever I Call It, It Is. (1974) (0)Landmarks in the Literature: The Limits of Language. (1979) (0)The Scientific Spirit and the Modern Classroom (1961) Exploring Your Language (1966) The Uses of Language. The Languages of Discovery. Language and Systems (1966) Language and reality (1968) More Papers This paper list is powered by the following services:
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