Comments on: Episode 30 – Live From Egypt! https://digitalcampus.tv/2008/07/episode-30-live-from-egypt/ A discussion of how digital media and technology are affecting learning, teaching, and scholarship at colleges, universities, libraries, and museums. Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:08:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.2 By: Elizabeth Scheibel https://digitalcampus.tv/2008/07/episode-30-live-from-egypt/#comment-121 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:08:42 +0000 http://digitalcampus.tv/?p=37#comment-121 On several shows, you have mentioned that you wish you had the perspective of a younger person, a digital native, to compare and contrast with you own. Why not have one as a regular or semi-regular part of the show? A 25 year old, female, graduate student in library and information science with an English major and history and classics minors might be fun…

]]> By: Derek Bruff https://digitalcampus.tv/2008/07/episode-30-live-from-egypt/#comment-120 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:56:51 +0000 http://digitalcampus.tv/?p=37#comment-120 Thanks for another great episode. I liked the “live” reporting from Egypt! Given Liam Wyatt’s interest in parallels between historical arguments and processes in academia and on Wikipedia, I thought he (and listeners) might be interested in hearing an interview with a history professor, Michael Bess, here at Vanderbilt who used Wikipedia to help his undergraduate history majors learn to think and reason like historians.

Bess had his students learn about the atomic bombings at the end of World War II and then had his students examine the discussion behind the Wikipedia page on that same topic. He found that just about every aspect of the nature of historical thought and reasoning was evidenced in that discussion page, making this a useful activity for history majors.

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