4: Leading Thinkers

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To explore the implications of this study’s findings, we brought together a select group of leading thinkers in education, libraries, media research, journalism, and technology for a half day workshop at Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) on November 7, 2019. PIL coresearchers presented early findings from the Algo Study, and participants were invited to share and discuss the implications of our findings and ideas, experiences, solutions, challenges, and puzzling aspects about life in the age of algorithms. Further, they were asked to use their expertise to inform different solutions to issues “truth workers” — educators, librarians, and journalists — face when helping young adults understand the complexities and challenges of our current information environment.

As a final step in the workshop, each participant was asked to submit a reflection responding to this prompt: What do people need to know most about the impact of algorithms, and where and how can we effect change?

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