I'm a university prof in a medical science field. We hired a new, tenure-line prof to teach introductory musculoskeletal anatomy to prepare our students for the more rigorous, full systems anatomy that's taught by a different professor. We learned (too late, after a year) that they used AI to generate the slides they used in lecture and never questioned/evaluated the content. Had an entire cohort of students fail the subsequent anatomy course after that.
But in my mind, what's worse is that the administration did nothing to correct the prof, and continues to push a pro-AI narrative in order for us to spend less time investing resources in teaching.
This article made me wonder whether the issue was with our digital devices or what we're doing on our devices in these "interstitial times." Whwn I was a teen, I almost always had a book with me that I'd read in quiet moments between things; in college, reading is how I passed my time between classes. Now, I do the same with ebooks. I don't think the screen made any difference.
So is the problem filling the interstitial time with anything beyond daydreaming, or is the issue with the instant gratification that many apps are engineered to provide?