On education community boards, social media, and online forums, discussion on a common problem seems to be increasing- apathy. This paper aims to review current perspectives on overcoming apathy and improving motivation post-Covid and with rising access and reliance on AI-generated content, especially in language acquisition and required ESL/EFL classes. Over two dozen threads and more than four hundred comments were reviewed by the author, and then grouped into four thematic categories. This paper therefore opens the dialogue on much-needed concrete changes to curriculum and policy that must be enacted to align with new realities and the current educational climate.
Colleen Diane Seki (Fri,) studied this question.