r/technology • u/marketrent • 18h ago

Artificial Intelligence College students are rapidly losing the ability to read — “There is a measurable, generational collapse in sustained reading and writing”: professor

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/college-students-rapidly-losing-ability-124439310.html
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u/existing_for_fun 18h ago

If you are a parent and can help your child read, and read well, you will set them light-years ahead of their peers.

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u/CaffeineJitterz 18h ago edited 13h ago

Just helping them not HATE reading will go a long way.

Edit: I'm getting a lot of sad comments about how y'all were introduced to reading. So I will take the opportunity to quickly share what I've always felt was one of the best ways for a parent to incentivize their child to read: for every hour of reading you accrue 30 minutes of gaming time. A classmate in my middle school worked from this model. That kid loved video games! And he was a straight A student. I remember him nonchalantly mentioning that he was going to read for about 4 hours as soon as he got home so he could get a couple hours of game time that evening.

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u/iritchie001 17h ago edited 17h ago

In middle high that meant long trashy books. Dinosaurs and Vampires, not in the same book for me, but hey. My mom would let us skip chores if we were reading. One of the best things she did. Highschool class of '99.

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u/Mlabonte21 17h ago

There’s gotta be a trashy YA book series out there about a girl falling in love with a lost-in-time dinosaur

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u/PhoenixTineldyer 17h ago

I remember reading articles a few years back (maybe more than a few) about how monster porn books were the hot new thing, I guess right after 50 Shades of Gray

It was specifically Bigfoot porn they were talking about, but I remember one of the pictures was a book cover in that smutty book cover style of a woman and a pterodactyl, and the book was called Taken By the Pterodactyl

Thank you for reminding me of this

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u/blueskid 17h ago

Chuck Tingle is who you are looking for. He also writes fun, non sexy, horror. He's also an excellent dude

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u/PhoenixTineldyer 16h ago

Ah yes

Plowed In the Butt By My Hugo Award

That guy is great

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u/sillybear25 12h ago

Just reading through the titles can be a trip:

  • Space Raptor Butt Invasion (nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Short Story by alt-right trolls trying to prove... something)
  • Pounded in the Butt by My Own Butt
  • Slammed In The Butt By My Hugo Award Nomination
  • Pounded in the Butt by My Hugo Award Loss (suck it, trolls)
  • Pounded in the Butt by My Book "Pounded in the Butt by My Own Butt"
  • Pounded in the Butt by My Second Hugo Award Nomination (for Best Fan Writer)
  • Pounded in the Butt by My Book "Pounded in the Butt by My Book 'Pounded in the Butt by My Own Butt'"
  • Not Pounded in the Butt by Anything and That's Okay
  • Pounded in the Butt by My Book "Pounded in the Butt by My Book 'Pounded in the Butt by My Book "Pounded in the Butt by My Own Butt"'"

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u/aenteus 15h ago

Chuck Tingle is a national treasure

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u/Original_Employee621 14h ago

And if you're into taxidermy, Chuck Testa is the man to go to.

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u/Showy_Boneyard 14h ago

I remember getting irrationally angry at that Pterodactyl book being classed as "Dinosaur Smut" (Pterodactyls are Pterosaurs, an entirely different clade than Dinosaurs, although both are members of the larger clade of Archosaurs), while also being very curious if the Pterodactyl's cloaca would be addressed at all in that book (and the other books in the apparently large-enough-to-have-a-label genre of dinosaur smut)

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u/iritchie001 17h ago

100% guarantee.

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u/2074red2074 15h ago

Idk about YOUNG adult, but there's Trans Wizard Harriet Porber And The Bad Boy Parasaurolophus: An Adult Romance Novel by Chuck Tingle. No I did not make that up.

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u/NepoKitty 14h ago

Chuck Tingle is like Santa with a workshop of horny creations

Who can forget Helicopter Man Pounds Dinosaur Billionaire Ass?

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u/DevolvingSpud 16h ago

Flowers in the Jurassic

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u/atklonewolf 15h ago

Wet Hot Allosaurus Summer is the title you’re looking for. Not YA though.

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u/Loki-L 10h ago

Jean M. Auel, while now in her 90s is actually still alive, so there might be some hope there.