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Britannica CEO Talks Google, Wikipedia and What Lil Pump Can Teach Us About Credibility

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There was a time not long ago when people claimed to trust Google news results and Wikipedia articles more than the media outlets they linked to. In other words, up until pretty recently Googling was synonymous with a question answered. It’s not because of Google or Wikipedia. Is that gated information approach typical?

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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College of Computing Professor Ashok Goel and his team used the 40,000 some odd questions that students had asked in previous versions of the course to build out Jill’s knowledge-base. Google Reader. Google shut down Reader in 2013 , citing declining use of RSS. It is fair, however, to blame “Montessori 2.0” The TED Talk.

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