Literacy in a Digital World

Jan 18th, 2005

From the New York Times, via Distance Educator.

There was a time when researching a high school or college term paper was a far simpler thing.

A student writing about, say, count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, might have checked out a book on the history of aviation from the local library or tucked into the family's dog-eared Britannica. An ambitious college freshman might have augmented the research by looking up some old newspaper clips on microfilm or picking up a monograph in the stacks.

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