Reading and Writing in Digital Age: Combining Analogue and Digital Methods in Teaching Humanities
Abstract
The process of reading and writing sophisticated texts forms a vital part of education in humanities; however, instructors today routinely face the challenge of students often lacking elementary reading and writing skills. This fact can be explained by the change in dominant reading and writing technologies and their respecive affordances. Humanities students can be taught to read and write complex texts through the thoughtful use of ‘analogue’ experience of previous generations combined with the acute awareness of the new conditions and changes brought by the digital technologies.
Keywords: education, higher education, humanities, reading, writing, digital technologies, affordance
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