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The Economic Times
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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Teaching beyond the book the next challenge for humanities - The Untold Story

This is not an attack on print medium, or the written word. Print remains one of the great technologies through which humans store thought and feeling. But in many humanities classrooms, print has hardened from a medium into a mindset.

We teach as though serious interpretation begins and ends with the bound text, ignoring the reality that students inhabit a world where language is composed of images, sounds, interfaces, archives and code.

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