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[return to "In Praise of Print: Reading Is Essential in an Era of Epistemological Collapse"]
1. retskr+o7[view] [source] 2024-11-28 10:53:42
>>bertma+(OP)
Times have changed. Students who use podcasts, YouTube, and ChatGPT to complete their academic tasks aren't shallower or less educated than those who have spent years mastering the skill of extracting information from dense books.I have younger relatives who can't sustain their attention to read a book to save their life but still earn excellent grades because they were born into a world of technology. Their way of finding and extracting information is different—not better, just different.
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2. clario+38[view] [source] 2024-11-28 10:59:53
>>retskr+o7
The question is if they actually are just as capable, or if they are gaming the metric used by educators. My money is on the latter, but then again I do tend to have a negative outlook.
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