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How copy-paste culture kills reading comprehension

I teach middle school and my students plagiarize from Wikipedia but they do not even read what they copy so their essays make no sense

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An educator witnesses students learning to manipulate information without engaging with meaning, mistaking data transfer for intellectual development.

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