Dave, generally I agree with you. But search is something more than a good search string. What you did in the library, reading different materials, and synthesizing them, was what was important. Essays required you to do that, but as you point out, that no longer works. Yet, I still think we need Harold Jarche’s PKM (seek – sense – share). What’s important to me is the middle step, making sense of things, after searching and before sharing. If not writing, then what? Not that I have an answer. I’m wondering about diagramming, tho’ will AI be able to do that? Right now my colleague Markus Bernhardt argues that AI can’t do text *and* appropriate images (one or the other). Maybe that’s the trick? Do we need to go back to individual interviews to accompany assignments? I don’t know the answer, but while having good search is important, it’s what you do with the results that also matters.