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December 2005/January 2006 | Volume 63 | Number 4 Learning in the Digital Age Pages 66-71
Susan M. Allen, Karen M. Dutt-Doner, Karen Eini, Rona Frederick, Hsueh-Hua Chuang and Ann Thompson
Diving into primary source documents, reaching out to classrooms on the other side of the world, tapping into a cultural identity, turning students into technology advisors: See how educators are exploring the potential of technology.
Susan M. Allen and Karen M. Dutt-Doner
Until fairly recently, students studying history had to rely on those few historical documents that secondary sources, such as textbooks and encyclopedias, reproduced. However, with the advent of such Web sites as the Library of Congress (www.loc.gov), classrooms now have access to millions of digitized documents. Students have the opportunity to use these documents as historians and scholars do: analyzing and evaluating information; interpreting snapshots of a given person, place, or event; and synthesizing their findings.
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