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

NeverEndingSearch

Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Reddit and Tumblr played huge roles in disseminating political information during the past election season. On Twitter’s 10th birthday this year, Poynter, the respected journalism portal, listed 10 Twitter How Tos –guides for using Twitter for journalism from its own archive.

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The Politics of Education Technology

Hack Education

E-Rate has been, since the origin of the fund in 1996, the main way in which schools and libraries were supposedly guaranteed “reasonable rates” on telecommunications services. million in E-Rate rebates.). Bandwidth is necessary, and schools still struggle to provide it, particularly in rural areas.