Robert Taylor
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His faculty profile from Teachers College, Columbia University, indicates his scholarly interests are:
- Computer-based technology in education, across the curriculum, and around the world, including its utility for human survival in a balanced ecosystem.
His formal educational background includes:
- B.A., Denison University (English)
- B.D., M.A., University of Chicago (Thesis: "'If We Are Any good'-A study of the theology implicit in selected modern prose fiction")
- Ed.D., Teachers College (Thesis: "'Two Yes' A study of mathematics teaching in Ugandan primary schools" Afro-Anglo-American Fellow, 1969-1970)
=Tutor Tool Tutee Book
- Taylor, Robert P. (1980). Editor, The computer in the school: Tutor, Tool, Tutee New York: Teachers College.
Art on Art
Bob Taylor has an extensive Website titled Art on Art. Quoting from this Website:
- This web gallery or "webbery" is the work of Robert P. Taylor (see Site artist and creator below) of Teachers College, Columbia University, who both drew the 188 drawings the website digitally presents and constructed the website itself, a webbery designed to exhibit the drawings and to comment both upon them and upon the 161 works by other artists which they reflect. In the context of a website, ArtonArt explores the power of the medium to modify and variously exhibit drawings once digitized (see Site background below). Many of its ideas were first suggested by Webbery (1996-97), the first of several drawing-based sites (see Related Taylor websites below). That website explored characteristics of classifying and arranging visual data in the form of drawings, including some drawings of the art of others, but Art on Art concentrates exclusively on that subject, using a website to display nothing but drawings created by one artist from the works of others.
Personal Comment by David Moursund
I think I first Bob Taylor at the first National Educational Computing Conference held in Iowa City, Iowa in 1979. At the second NECC held in Norfolk, Virginia in 1980, we served on a panel (with Beverly Hunter) titled "Computer Literacy Defined."
When Bob Taylor was finishing the writing of his 1980 book, "The Computer in the School: Tutor, Tool, Tutee," he contacted me and asked if I would write a Preface for the book. I felt highly honored that he made this request, and I was happy to make this very small contribution to this seminal (and now, classic) book. Among other things, I said:
- Anyone wondering either what role computers can play in education or why their incorporation into the curriculum should receive highest priority should read this book from cover to cover, as soon as possible. (Preface, p. viii).
Bob and I have worked together on various projects for many years. He is "my kind of person." When he sees something that needs to be done to advance the field of education, he takes it upon himself to play a leadership role in doing it. At the same time, he is quite willing to work with others and to provide high quality support to their work.
References
Taylor, Robert P. (1980). The Computer in the School: Tutor, Tool, Tutee. NY: Teachers College Press.
Taylor, Robert P (1980). The Floating Point Solution (humor). The Best of Creative Computing, Volume 3. Retrieved 8/15/08: http://www.atariarchives.org/bcc3/showpage.php?page=128.
Taylor, R. P. (2003). Reflections on The Computer in the School. Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education [Online serial], 3(1). Retrieved 1/23/2009: http://www.citejournal.org/vol3/iss2/seminal/article2.cfm. Quoting from this article:
- Twenty-three years ago, when I put together the 1980 book, The Computer in the School, personal computers were just making their debut. …
- …
- For the most part at that time, though such PCs were beginning to appear, the computers found in schools (and most other places for that matter) were primarily larger, multi-user computers, and educational software was not yet very widely available. The arguments and theses advanced in the book depended on the insights of the five relatively visionary authors it featured, extrapolating from the limited capabilities of hardware and software then available. Each had done his foundational work on learning and computers largely in specially constructed digital environments, different from those ordinary teachers might have had at their disposal (an inevitable difference, given the size, and nature of the computers and attachments then available). However, each had, nevertheless, logged considerable experience with young people actually using computers as a support in learning and from that, despite the unique environment, had drawn perceptive conclusions about what it meant.
- The world, in general, and the world of computers and digital technology in particular, have changed considerably since that day …
References
Taylor, Robert (n.d.). Principle publicaoitns. Faculty Profile, Teachers College, Columbia University. Retrieved 1/23/2009: http://www.tc.columbia.edu/faculty/about.htm?facID=rpt4&page=principal+publications. Here are the first few publications in that list:
- Taylor, R. P. (1975). Computerless computing for young children or what to do till the computer comes. In Proceeding of the 2nd World Conference on Computers in Education Amsterdam: North Holland.
- Taylor, R. P. (1976). Monty Python meets Monte Cristo or French disconnection. SIGCUE BULLETIN 10:1.
- Taylor, R. P. (1976). Let us first make it or and now I saw, though too late or Robinson Crusoe: A book for all computing seasons. Creative Computing 2:6.
- Taylor, R. P. (1977), Bottom-Up Bizet -- Reflections on implementing release 234.5 of the Pearl Fishers. Creative Computing 3:2.
- Taylor, R. P. (1977). Fiction and the education of systems analysts. TC Record, Autumn.
- Taylor, R. P. (1977). Teaching Programming without access to computers. Proceedings of International Conference on Computer Applications in Developing Countries. Bangkok: Asian Institute of Technology.
