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Best Websites to Help You Find Academic Books and Journal Articles

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Unlike mainstream search engines such as Google and Bing, these tools are academically focused providing you with results that are most likely to be relevant to your search queries. Google Scholar Google Scholar is Google's search engine for academic and scholarly literature.

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Truth, truthiness, triangulation and the librarian way: A news literacy toolkit for a “post-truth” world

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6) (Note: Most of these tasks could authentically be taught in our libraries during the natural course of any inquiry project.). Google and Facebook both announced that they would try to eliminate fake news from appearing in their result lists and newsfeeds by blocking fake news sources from using their ad networks. Remember Sandy?

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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And like so many products on this list, 3D printing was hailed as a revolution in education, and schools were encouraged to reorient libraries and shop classes towards “maker spaces” which would give students opportunities to print their plastic designs. The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That).

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Education Technology and the Promise of 'Free' and 'Open'

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Google)’s biotech company, Calico. ” Tuition keeps going up and up and up, although as The Wall Street Journal noted this fall, published tuition rates only rose 2.4% The Department of Education echoed that data , announcing in September that “the three-year federal student loan cohort default rate dropped from 11.8

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The Politics of Education Technology

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Facebook, like Google, is an advertising company. DeVos herself sat on the Board of Directors of the Acton Institute from 1995 to 2005, an organization that recently blogged about repealing child labor laws. million in E-Rate rebates.). Facebook is, although Mark Zuckerberg denies it , a media company.