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The answer is no, obviously, but this University of Brighton teacher has clearly had enough of inaccurate, copy-and-paste essays - as picked up by TechCrunch UK.
Professor Tara Brabazon feels so strongly she's holding a lecture called "Google is white bread for the mind" on Wednesday.
The internet is just a tool, and rather than adopting the Canute-ist and ultimately impossible stance of trying to ban the internet, Brabazon's time would be better spent trying to understand how that tool can be used constructively and then passing that on to her students.
When I was at college, we had induction sessions on how to use the library. (It was quite a while ago.) Won't sourcing, verifying and interpreting information from the web become just another skill that students need to develop at college?
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