So many changes, so little time
Hi!
So, one of the points that I found fascinating in “Promises and Perils of Digital History” is the fact that so much information can be found in just so little time. 10 years ago, most people did not even know what the internet was. If a college student 20 years ago needed sources for a paper that they had to write, they would have to get creative. We have the luxury of being able to type something into google and get the results that we need. Another interesting point about researching on the internet is that results can be found in all different forms, such as images, sounds, and moving videos/pictures. History is now portrayed and presented in all of these different forms and I believe that this makes people want to learn about it and engage in it more than they would have if they just had to sit there and read a textbook.
Three topics that I would be interested in researching and learning about this semester:
-How the digital world has changed the way we learn in school (on both the elementary level through college and graduate school).
-The digital world and politics
-Different ways that the digital world could be extremely dangerous to us as a country
Talia