Students are turning to YouTube, podcasts and ChatGPT-crafted summaries rather than actually reading their assignments for class. Professors are unsure how to adapt.
Students are turning to YouTube, podcasts and ChatGPT-crafted summaries rather than actually reading their assignments for class. Professors are unsure how to adapt.
>“Reading deeply and widely for many hours a day is the only way to become educated in an academic field. There are no shortcuts to this. If our students cannot read more than 100 pages per day or focus for more than 20 minutes at a time, they are never going to be educated,” wrote one X user, who self-identified as a Ph.D. candidate at Princeton University.
You can now decide if you want to keep reading dry academic texts that are tough to understand or go for a summary video or AI explanation.
Classic_Result on
One way is to create tricky quiz questions based on a false premise, like, “How did Prohibition lead to a reduction in organized crime?” You can’t just get an AI answer to it. You have to actually understand the subject and correctly dispute the question.
fxkatt on
TV shrunk everyone’s attention span, and the Internet has only sped up this process. I read that the ave. amount of time spent at a Internet site is about 7 seconds. Each era becomes more and more reliant on speed, and the visual over the written word. So you have movies with nothing but action and no dialogue, or none to speak of. Video games. Universal symbols over native language. Multi-tasking. Always being on call through smart phones and cell phones…. etc. Speed replaces not only words but thoughts.
golddilockk on
i thought learning was the whole point, what’s the issue with learning from YT or Podcast?
Dragonsfire09 on
Considering that academic works are as dry as the Sahara and spend hundreds of pages to say something that could have been said in twenty pages, I am going to look for accurate, concise work.
laowildin on
Don’t read, don’t learn. Hope they don’t regret their choices. You can pry reading from my cold dead hands
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>“Reading deeply and widely for many hours a day is the only way to become educated in an academic field. There are no shortcuts to this. If our students cannot read more than 100 pages per day or focus for more than 20 minutes at a time, they are never going to be educated,” wrote one X user, who self-identified as a Ph.D. candidate at Princeton University.
You can now decide if you want to keep reading dry academic texts that are tough to understand or go for a summary video or AI explanation.
One way is to create tricky quiz questions based on a false premise, like, “How did Prohibition lead to a reduction in organized crime?” You can’t just get an AI answer to it. You have to actually understand the subject and correctly dispute the question.
TV shrunk everyone’s attention span, and the Internet has only sped up this process. I read that the ave. amount of time spent at a Internet site is about 7 seconds. Each era becomes more and more reliant on speed, and the visual over the written word. So you have movies with nothing but action and no dialogue, or none to speak of. Video games. Universal symbols over native language. Multi-tasking. Always being on call through smart phones and cell phones…. etc. Speed replaces not only words but thoughts.
i thought learning was the whole point, what’s the issue with learning from YT or Podcast?
Considering that academic works are as dry as the Sahara and spend hundreds of pages to say something that could have been said in twenty pages, I am going to look for accurate, concise work.
Don’t read, don’t learn. Hope they don’t regret their choices. You can pry reading from my cold dead hands