This is really happening. I like taking courses, so I've been doing part time university studies (now into a PhD) for about 15 years now. I'm 50, so I remember

This is really happening. I like taking courses, so I've been doing part time university studies (now into a PhD) for about 15 years now. I'm 50, so I remember uni before the internet was even really a big thing. The drop in engagement in students is shocking. I take some combined undergrad/grad level courses in my PhD program, and half the time I'm the only one, in a class of like 100, who says anything. And then so many do homework with ChatGPT and have no actual understanding. I shudder thinking what managing theses people will be like. I've heard from someone who is managing recent grads that it's awful. Obviously these are generalizations, not everyone is like that, etc. But this is a real problem. Pretending it's just old people not like change is sweeping it under the carpet. Tech has (deliberately) gotten more and more addictive and it's badly screwing people up.