by zaidshan | Dec 18, 2013 | CHI Articles & Discussions
One of the distinguishing, if not alarming qualities of our current historical moment is that cultural change occurs so rapidly and dramatically that one generation can scarcely recognize the next. Digital innovations of even the last twenty years have so forcefully...
by havila14 | Dec 13, 2013 | CHI Articles & Discussions, CHI Fellowship Program
As and older student I remember being an undergraduate during a time when email was new and rarely used on campus. Most of my communication with my professors was in person or sometimes by telephone; the kind that were attached to walls! Grades were posted outside of...
by David Walton | Dec 12, 2013 | CHI Articles & Discussions
Laypeople and community organizations can aid scholars and professionals dedicated to digitizing African American culture and heritage in four important ways. First, scanning photographs, obituaries, organizational documents, class photos, workplace photos, and other...
by David Walton | Oct 28, 2013 | CHI Articles & Discussions, CHI Fellowship Program
Digitizing and preserving African American history and heritage is an important mission in the digital age. Providing access to K-12 and undergraduate students and educators, as well as the community at large, is the largest challenge. Furthermore, strategies for...
by David Bennett | Oct 22, 2013 | CHI Articles & Discussions
Asked to imagine the trial and death of Socrates, we might conjure up an image of Jacque-Louis David’s oil painting Death of Socrates, or recall Plato’s written accounts. We might even imagine modern day reinterpretations of the event. However, none of these...
by Ashley Wiersma | Mar 11, 2013 | CHI Articles & Discussions
“Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and...
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