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Promoting the digital literacy of undergraduate historians using digitised historic newspapers
Hawkins, Richard
Hawkins, Richard
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2016-09
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Mass digitisation offers new possibilities for learning and teaching in higher education by making primary sources such as newspapers much more accessible for teaching. However, as Hawkins & Gildart (2010) report, in practice promoting the digital literacy of historians can be very challenging. However, the more recent experience of the author using Chronicling America for undergraduate Level 6 teaching suggests that students engage more enthusiastically with digitised historic newspapers and have a more positive experience when in particular searching functionality (i.e. the functionality of the search engine) is designed to optimise user engagement.
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2399-1836