I may not have read a tale of two cities in high school but I did vaguely remember a stage adaptation I had seen and I read the Wikipedia page and I wrote that essay that my (very strict) teacher absolutely loved from my mind to my hands to the page.
And I may not have done the reading about Machiavelli in college but I had seen Princess Diaries 2 a hundred times growing up, and I had watched the episode of ATLA where Jet tries to sacrifice a village the night before, and I read the Wikipedia overview at the beginning of class so when my professor listened in on my groups discussion on the reading, he loved the points I made.
My point is, learning isn't just reading information, it's connecting the information you learn to knowledge you already have, and the thing about how so many students and even teachers are using AI in their learning and teaching is that if they read what it says and they rarely connect it to knowledge they already have, and therefore, the information they were supposed to have learned slips right out of their mind. And pretty soon the knowledge that's already there starts to slip, too.
