Classroom Activity

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Why Use Text Mining in Your Teaching?

Like a lot of other DH tools, Text Mining can:

• Get students to think differently by stepping outside the usual routine of traditional reading, writing
• Provide students with an opportunity to get familiar with technical tools and methodologies

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Why analog?

• Comprehensive coverage of DH tools often requires access to a wide variety of technology
  • The settings needed for teaching these tools can be difficult to create
  • Or maybe you just want to keep technology out of the classroom
• Digital Methodologies, with or without computers, can get us to think in refreshing new ways…
  • Because there is less to learn from a software perspective, the learning objective is easier to achieve
  • There is an added benefit of stripping away the speed of a computer and emphasizing what the digital tool actually does
  • A single-session digital methodology activity is a low-risk way to try out Digital Humanities: it’s unlikely to have any long-term negative effects for the class, but instructors will still capitalize on the positive effects of an activity change

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This activity will:

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A Practical Analog Example: Text Mining by Hand

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