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How Social Media Encourages Plagiarism (and Six Ways You Can Fight It)

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Has the ubiquity of social media given plagiarism new life? Whether or not the Internet is to blame, plagiarism seems to have become more socially acceptable across grade levels. Include evidence, such as custom-made graphics to illustrate their claims, video and audio recordings.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via Politico : “ Trump steps up fight to keep Trump University deposition videos secret.” Anil Dash and Gina Trapani announced they’re closing down their social media analytics product ThinkUp. Who owns your data – whether it’s social media or school-related?

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” UC Davis suffered a week-long LMS outage , and lots of folks had to weigh in with their thoughts on what this meant about Sakai , running one’s own infrastructure , and open source. Via Edutechnica : “ Sakai by the Numbers.” “The end is near,” as Buzzfeed put it. “Try marketing.”