Students turn to AI to do their assigned readings for them

Only one college student says they typically complete their assigned reading assignments.

Some students skim, some use artificial intelligence to create summaries and some rely on old-fashioned human-written summaries.

Academics argue that the decline in reading is not worth the hand-wringing and despair it often provokes.

College students themselves say they often choose not to complete their assignments.

ChatGPT makes flash cards and other study tools based on readings uploaded.

English students say they avoid reading assignments when the material feels redundant with lecture material.

English majors who spoke with Inside Higher Ed viewed reading differently than many of their peers in other majors.

For professors, the decline of reading has catalyzed new techniques for teaching reading.

Students are not reading as deeply on their own, but face barriers to reading texts for school, researchers say.

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