Just a professor standing in front of BlueSky demoralized because exams my students used to get a mean of 83% on prior to 2020 are now failed in large numbers. It seems that their ability to APPLY concepts to new contexts/domains has all but disappeared. I love these students & I am worried.
Apr 19, 2026 at 8:26 PM
College professors face an emerging challenge: We know students are no longer reading entire books
Some teachers increasingly are shifting their approach to reading, assigning fewer books than they once did.
Luiza Jarovsky, PhD on Twitter / X
🚨 University professors have been saying AI is completely destroying learning and that we'll soon have an AI-powered, semi-illiterate workforce. Here's a glimpse into the educational apocalypse:"Sarah, a freshman at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, said she first used… pic.twitter.com/Rq6zUi5mRp— Luiza Jarovsky, PhD (@LuizaJarovsky) May 6, 2026
Opinion | My Students Can’t Read
The generational collapse in literacy is measurable, persistent, and likely to get worse.
Teachers Are Not OK
AI, ChatGPT, and LLMs "have absolutely blown up what I try to accomplish with my teaching."
Time to switch? A university’s guide to Bluesky
Bluesky’s growth offers academics, departments and institutions the chance to build engaged communities. Here are some tips on setting up a profile
Arvind Narayanan on Twitter / X
This week I had the honor of speaking to Princeton’s entire incoming undergraduate class to address their AI anxieties. I had three messages for them — good news, bad news, and a note of optimism. Here’s a condensed version.The good newsWe have enough evidence now to conclude…— Arvind Narayanan (@random_walker) August 27, 2026
Cory Doctorow on Enshittification, with danah boyd and Lee Vinsel
Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the humanities? Yes — and every student gets their own personal chatbot. The second coming of the Trump Administration has exposed the civic sclerosis of the US body politic? Time to turn the Social Security Administration over to Grok. Climate apocalypse now feels less like a distant terror than a fact of life? In three years, roughly a tenth of US energy demand will come from data centers alone.
‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom
Education is at a crossroads, argues the author and academic. Should we embrace new technology in the name of efficiency, or is it time to fight back?
Kids who use ChatGPT as a study assistant do worse on tests
Researchers compare math progress of almost 1,000 high school students
Academic papers should become Bluesky accounts (yes, really)
