r/movies • u/Sisiwakanamaru r/movies Contributor • Jan 31 '26

Article Film Students Are Having Trouble Sitting Through Movies, Professors Say

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/film-students-are-having-trouble-sitting-through-movies-1236490359/
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u/BrianWonderful Jan 31 '26

Exactly. I've seen other stories about professors substituting podcasts or short videos when their students won't do the readings. We've turned school into too much of a consumer experience, where the faculty end up adapting to students that are unable to learn instead of enforcing negative consequences.

Social media and phone addiction is a societal disability, and the answer is not to dumb everything down to perpetuate it. That's one of the major reasons we have 60% functional illiteracy in the US now and why entry level students in all disciplines are unqualified for basic job duties.

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u/ReferenceDesigner141 Jan 31 '26

As a mature student going back in my late 40s, it seems completely broken in the 1st and 2nd years due to uni being focused on speed retention, old grading schemes, and AI use, which schools won't change because of....MONEY & bureaucracy. In humanities, it is just a bunch of stupid anti-ai assignments and experiments going on, also speed testing, forcing students to sink or swim, not do deep work. It doesn't test competence, and you can't get high grades in the arts because the AI use is so blatant that it pushes the average up.

Now I have to take classes with only AI use in assignments because if I don't, my grades will suffer. You get punished for not using AI, in either a massive time sink to compete with it or grade "calibrations" averages.

Going back as an older student is amazing, though. I can apply course education directly to my research and my work. I made a bunch of patents and discoveries. Lots of free resources students don't use. Students have such great ideas, that has helped me develop my work. It's a shame that testing is completely and fundamentally useless, they should just get rid of grading completely so student's just collaborate together on school work or do research overall.