College Students Are Losing the Ability to Read (and think)

More food for thought (but only if you can read and think):

In a new essay for The Chronicle Higher Education, university-level literature and writing instructor Tyler Jagt recalls how not a single one of his students could get through an assigned 20-page article, something that he had read “without complaint” as an undergraduate a decade ago…“So when a student tells me they ‘kept losing track’ of a 20-page article, I have to acknowledge that they may be describing a measurable neurological condition,” Jagt wrote. “The neural pathways that support sustained attention are built by use, and they atrophy without it. Your body is a use-it-or-lose-it system, and the brain is no exception.” College Students Are Rapidly Losing the Ability to Readhttps://futurism.com/future-society/college-students-losing-ability-read

No surprise then when graduates demonstrate Alarmingly Shallow Ideas.

Do we really want Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Classroom?

One thought on “College Students Are Losing the Ability to Read (and think)

Leave a comment