My hot take: we faculty bear some blame for failing to teach students how to read efficiently. Reading every word was never practical, and LLMs tempt students we haven’t taught otherwise.
Here’s what I wrote to teach this - please use with your own students if helpful!
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Pat Savage
My Students Can’t Read. “There is a measurable, generational collapse in sustained reading and writing, and the academy is responding to it with improvisation and exhaustion rather than the structural overhaul it requires.” [chronicle.com]
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The generational collapse in literacy is measurable, persistent, and likely to get worse.
