Comments on: Stop teaching historians to use computers! http://www.stoa.org/archives/633 Serving news, projects, and links for digital classicists everywhere. Wed, 08 May 2013 16:09:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Bill Parsons http://www.stoa.org/archives/633/comment-page-1#comment-70487 Bill Parsons Wed, 09 May 2007 00:54:57 +0000 http://www.stoa.org/?p=633#comment-70487 Of course we should not be teaching future historians to use a computer. Part of teaching historiography, however, must be to investigate how information has come to us and how it is accessible. The Internet, for better or worse, has become a source and as historians we must learn the techniques for critically analyzing this source as we would any other.

Technology is a tool. Sometimes it is appropriate and sometimes not (although I cannot imagine returning to my Smith Corona); part of becoming a professional is knowing what tool to use for the job at hand.

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