Here's a way that I think about it. The old way was never perfect. Writing short essays and grading them by hand was never a facsimile of any real world task,

Here's a way that I think about it. The old way was never perfect. Writing short essays and grading them by hand was never a facsimile of any real world task, either in academia or elsewhere. There was only a hunch or tradition -- and likely a weak one -- that the exercise had some useful correlation to real tasks, or that students could adapt from their training exercises to real-world exercises themselves. And the teachers -- especially at the college level -- were never trained to teach. They learned teaching by trial and error, attrition, and the age old process of mimesis. Thus there is no mechanism for training teachers, or for developing new teaching methods. Now the teachers are utterly unprepared for this kind of technological revolution. They were barely prepared at all for straightforward plagiarism, and now this. They can reasonably anticipate that they will receive no training or support to learn how to adapt, while also being told it's their fault for not figuring it out. They're completely on their own. All they will hear from the tech world is: You now have the wrong methods, adapt or die. Here in the tech world, we adapt to new technologies all the time, because the new stuff is really pretty easy to learn, like the old stuff was. In the case of teaching, "adapt" means change careers.