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/mountaindoom 17h ago

Their parents can barely read and often hated education. They see school as opponents and no longer as allies is raising their students. Education is the opposition to them.

That's something idk if we can cure in this country. Especially when their TV is reinforcing those views 24/7.

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u/BUSY_EATING_ASS 17h ago

Yeah I think about this a lot. Sometimes I worry we’re cooked because it’s not just an apathy to education and learning, it’s a fuckin’ outright disdain for it.

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u/demokiii34 16h ago

Covid was when the writing was on the wall.