Lyceumgrove is a ‘peripatetic school’, a movable feast or varied symposium on learning and doing, technology and being.
Lyceumgrove is orchestrated by Michael A. Budd, BS, UO, MA & PhD, Rutgers, writer, teacher, historian, and former learning architect at Teleologic.net – currently professor and humanities MA/PhD program director at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island.
My longstanding interest in technology is manifest today in my role as the director of the SRU doctoral program, which began in the 1980s with a focus on the question of what it means to be human in an age of accelerating technological change.
Fascinated by science fiction and all thing robotic as a kid I remember my first encounter with an actual computer on a school field trip where we interacted with a diagnostic ‘doctor’ program at a teletype terminal without a screen interface. I later went from taking computer science courses that involved using punch cards to run programs to using my first desktop PC to write my dissertation. Along the way I experienced different aspects of advancing computerization as I wrote for my university newspaper and worked as an editorial assistant at the Village Voice. As a graduate student I held one of the first positions in the Faculty of Arts & Sciences for technology integration & training. A central thread in my dissertation research was the examination of the role of new media and image making technologies on ideas about the body. As the world wide web came into being I continued to explore technology and learning: teaching other teachers about online best practices and leaving academe for a time to work on organizational change & technology integration, web development & online facilitation in non-profit and for-profit environments.
