Educational Technology

August 3, 2010

Humanities, not science, key to new web frontier

Filed under: Educational Technology — admin @ 12:35 am

By Daniel Paul O’Donnell, Edmonton Journal

A local high school asks you to speak to a graduating class about careers in the new digital economy. What would you urge them to study? Computer science? Engineering? Philosophy? Classics? Celtic studies? You might be surprised at how useful those last three could prove to be. Engineers and computer scientists are not the only ones who have played important roles in building our new digital economy; students of the humanities and social sciences have played an equally significant role.

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/technology/Humanities+science+frontier/3303742/story.html

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