Author: jrmurray

Over the course of the next several months, I will be posting a series of reflections on the challenges and opportunities around creating a college-level course on authoring eBooks and mobile apps in the context of the humanities. “In 2001, I published “Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants,” a two-part article that explained these terms as a way of understanding the deep differences between the  young people of today and many of their elders. Although many have found the terms useful, . . . the distinction between digital natives and digital immigrants will become less relevant. . . . Digital wisdom transcends…

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Over the course of the next several months, I will be posting a series of reflections on the challenges and opportunities around creating a college-level course on authoring eBooks and mobile apps in the context of the humanities. One benefit of a community like the Digital Rhetoric Collaborative is to make visible curricular decisions involving what and how we teach digital rhetoric. The purpose of this series of posts is to 1) take advantage of the many minds in our community who may want to offer suggestions about a new course I am currently working on; and 2) situate the…

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