Can Learning Go Slow When Tech Goes Fast?

In a world where everything is speeding up—information, expectations, distractions—how do we learn well? In Episode 3 of Prompted: Liberal Arts in the Age of AI, a theologian, a communication scholar, and a computer scientist--Sam Ha, Katie Day Good, and Fernando Santos--explore the tensions between unavoidable acceleration and indispensable friction.Together they unpack why meaningful education can’t just keep pace with technological speed, and why moments of pause, difficulty, and resistance are often the very conditions that allow students to grow. From classroom practice to digital culture to the shaping of long-term habits of mind, this episode asks what it takes to cultivate learners who can think critically, slow down wisely, and engage the world with care.For anyone navigating today’s rapid-learning environments—students, teachers, technologists—this conversation offers grounded insight into how we might recover the conditions for learning that actually lasts.The rough cut for this production was edited by Riley Johnston, produced by Craig Mattson, and funded by the Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship.