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Guest Post — Building the Last Mile: A Plan for Bringing the Expanding Universe of Digital Primary Sources into Classrooms
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Finally, where will instructors find the time to peruse these rich sources for the kind of materials that best meet their pedagogical goals, and develop lesson plans or scaffolding for student projects? To resolve this “last-mile” problem, we argue for a pedagogical model of primary source analysis that leverages the comparative advantage of digital archives, integrates the principles of digital humanities pedagogy in master’s and doctoral training, and encourages open dialogue among researchers, teachers, and archivists. But the workshop challenged participants to consider what teaching with primary sources might look like if instructors encouraged students to search, filter, and sort through material in a more open-ended way.