The average college student today
Today, it’s possible for a motivated secondary school student with Internet access to know more about the causes of the Peloponnesian War or how to make a digital film than his teacher.
Daniel H Pink • To Sell Is Human
... See moreMany students no longer arrive at college—even at highly selective, elite colleges—prepared to read books.
…the student told Dames that, at her public high school, she had never been required to read an entire book. She had been assigned excerpts, poetry, and news articles, but not a single book cover to cover.
The anecdote helped explain the change
Computers now do much of what kids are being taught to do in school
Ana Lorena Fabrega • Chrisman Frank and Ana Lorena Fabrega: How Childhood Education Will Change
From 1985 to 2000, the proportion of freshmen claiming to be bored in class reportedly rose from 26 percent to 40 percent. According to Amy Liu, Jessica Sharkness, and John H. Pryor, HERI Findings from the 2007 Administration of Your First College Year (YFCY) National Aggregates (2008), p. 9, the percentage of freshmen reporting that they were “fre
... See moreDerek Bok • Higher Education in America
Every day an internet ad shows me a way that A.I. can predict my lecture, transcribe my lecture while a student presumably does something other than listen, annotate the lecture, anticipate essay prompts, research questions, test questions and then, finally, write an assigned paper. How can professors out-teach an exponentially generative predictio... See more