As a teacher who lives in this every day, I keep reading literature about students being hollowed out and unable to confidently give back what they supposedly learned. The Aalto study found 1.15 prompts per question. Your two-prompt median in adults is the same behavior.

So it is not surprising to me that a teacher who uses AI without engaging with it, without going through the material, without being an expert in their subject, ends up hollow too.

AI is a reflection. Why would it surprise anyone that if you have a teacher who is not very good and you try to use AI to fill that gap, it reflects and amplifies that they are not very good?

I worked with someone who generated worksheets and never checked the facts in them. I have seen AI invent an episode of a series and cite it, and a student came to me because she could not find it. I recognized what it was actually called. We looked it up and found it in seconds. She asked why the teacher had not just told her that.

I am not saying that teacher is hollow. That one instance was. But it does not surprise me.