University of Toronto St. George Campus - History
Lecturer at University of Toronto Faculty of Information
Research
Matt
Price
Toronto, Canada Area
I am an educator with an interdisciplinary background who has spent the last 10 years engaged in a series of pedagogical experiments, bring technical education to to a series of places it does not normally go -- University-level humanities classrooms, elementary schools, social housing computer centres, and other places.
My principal academic interest is in the history and philoosphy of science and technology, and especially the interplay between technologies and social, cultural, and political phenomena. My main passion, though, is for the transformative effects of education, especially as they are related to social change, social justice, governance issues, and the environment.
I am always looking for ways to combine these interests in my work life -- finding projects that bring technology and the public good together, and make use of my unique constellation of technical and non-technical skills.
Assistant Professor
I was a professor: I taught classes, helped students, organized lectures, wrote about science and technology, their histories, and some philosophical problems they throw up.
Supermom
Hang out the laundry, make breakfast, get the kids out the door, go shopping, get the kids to climbing/music/art class/skating/birthday parties/&c., bring in the laundry, bake muffins/cookies/cinnamon buns, make dinner, read to the li'l one, pass out.
Founder/Chief Instructor
I run a variety of computer education projects centred on computer recycling and Free Software. Among other things, I build computers from salvage with primary school kids and tenants of social housing, build computer centres for the same, teach basic computer skills to very low-income people from diverse backgrounds, and teach programming (mostly using Scratch or its derivatives) to kids.
Lecturer
I teach digital history methods and currently lead the "History and its Publics" initiative at the Department, which seeks to enhance the use of new media in the classroom while simultaneously reaching out much more broadly to engage diverse communities through the web and in physical space.
Lecturer
I teach the core courses in the "Culture and Technology" stream in the Master's of Information program. This very diverse group of students seek preparation for a wide range of careers in fields such as design, marketing, knowledge architecture, and librarianship,for which I prepare them with an innovative curriculum based around cultural studies of technology..
PhD
History and Philosophy of Science
A.B.
History, Philosophy, History of Science