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Alchemy and Innovation: Cultivating an Appreciation for Primary Sources in Younger Students

Year: 2013

Type: article

Abstract: In a time of seemingly Instant access to information, students are becoming increasingly removed from physical primary source materials. Steve Kolowich explains this disconnection between the original objects and their digital counterparts in this way: “Students might have grown up with the language of the information age, but they do not necessarily know the grammar.”2 Introducing elementary school students to the differences between primary sources and their digital surrogates is an excellent way to highlight the continued cultural signifi-cance of manuscript documents and to foster the development of the critical thinking skills necessary to evaluate media resources in the new . . .

Source: RBM A Journal of Rare Books Manuscripts and Cultural Heritage

DOI: 10.5860/rbm.14.2.402

Authors: Lori Lynn Dekydtspotter, Cherry Dunham Williams

Institutions: Indiana University, Indiana University Bloomington

Language: English

Topic: Library Science and Information Literacy

Subfield: Library and Information Sciences

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: hybrid

Funder: Yale University