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Neil Postman (March 8, 1931 – October 5, 2003) 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. [1]
The End of Education [1] is a book by Neil Postman about public education in the United States.The use of the word "end" in the title has two meanings: primarily, as a synonym for "purpose", but also as a prediction about the future of public schools if they do not successfully identify and communicate a convincing purpose for their existence within human culture.
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (1985) is a book by educator Neil Postman. It has been translated into eight languages and sold some 200,000 copies worldwide. It has been translated into eight languages and sold some 200,000 copies worldwide.
Neil Postman states, "if in biology a 'medium' is something in which a bacterial culture grows (as in a Petri dish), in media ecology, the medium is 'a technology within which a [human] culture grows.'" [5] [6] [7] In other words, "Media ecology looks into the matter of how media of communication affect human perception, understanding, feeling ...
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology is a book by Neil Postman published in 1992 that describes the development and characteristics of a "technopoly". He defines a technopoly as a society in which technology is deified, meaning “the culture seeks its authorisation in technology, finds its satisfactions in technology, and takes its orders from technology”.
[3] [6] Neil Postman taught a course, Communication, The Invisible Environment, in the Fall of 1976. [7] After a preview broadcast at 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, September 7, 1957, [8] the program premiered on Monday, September 23, 1957 at 6:30 a.m. in New York [9] and aired at varying early times between 5:30 and 7:30 a.m. elsewhere. [10]
A non-curriculum, non-instructional method of teaching was advocated by Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner in their book Teaching as a Subversive Activity.In inquiry education students are encouraged to ask questions which are meaningful to them, and which do not necessarily have easy answers; teachers are encouraged to avoid giving answers.
Neil Postman, education reformer, humanist, social visionary, author, media critic, and creator of the NYU's Department of Media Ecology; Lenny Pickett, musical director for the Saturday Night Live band and MPAP faculty member at NYU Steinhardt