| >And yet more than half of these same seniors reported being accepted to a four-year college. Well… yes. The loans are secured, so it is within the college’s interest to make 13th grade. >showed that the mere presence of a participant’s smartphone — whether that be face down, powered off, untouched, or across the desk out of vision — measurably reduces available working memory and fluid intelligence on cognitive tests Claim without data that I see, but ok… going on… >Eighty-three percent of LLM users could not quote a single line from essays they had written minutes earlier. Well, this makes sense. They didn’t write anything. This isn’t ground breaking, they let the students cheat. >districts replaced sustained reading with the practice of pulling “evidence” from disconnected short passages, the same format used on the standardized tests that increasingly determine school funding I remember this first hand. >The students who cannot read a 20-page article today are the voters who will not be able to read a bill, or the jurors who cannot follow a closing argument, tomorrow. I’m certain I remember my parents complaining about the same with my generation… There are probably excellent points around these topics. But… this article doesn’t make the point as well as that kid getting his classmates failing to read a simple sentence on video. |