One of artificial intelligence’s goals is to replace people with machines.

Covid put a damper on young people socializing and now we get this:

Teens spend a quarter of their days in school on their smartphones based on

A Seattle Children’s Research Institute study.  They spent an average of an hour and a half  on their phones during an approximate 6-hour school day.  And what were they doing instead of learning:   messaging, Instagram, video streaming, audio, and email.

But my experience with college students is that they love to do things in person.  In our classes, we devote time at the start of class to getting to know others they may not have met.  It gets loud and happy and one graduate reminded me that he met his “best friend in college” in class.

Phones are good for some things.  Face-to-face engagement still rules.

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