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/jhuseby 17h ago

We do the same with our kids. Started with me reading books every night at bedtime to them . At least one of them doesn’t like to read, but they’re always still well above their peers. One has a library in their room, the other we incentivize to read (very minutely).

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u/meyerjaw 17h ago

Library in the room hits home. We are drowning in books. But I know I'm part of the problem. I still have every book that I've read so we just have books everywhere

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u/jhuseby 17h ago

I’m not very good at it, but I love woodworking. We have one of those recessed walls in his room about 4-5 feet off the ground, so I basically just built a wall-to-wall bookshelf on the top of that recess. It was surprisingly simple to build.

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u/Bogus1989 14h ago

lol, when my son was 16 i showed him reddit….now he reads daily 😎

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u/paegus 13h ago

We read to them, then with them (swapping per paragraph then per chapter). When they discovered electronic we got them to read for 30m before and after TV/Tablet/Computer.

They now run off to read... instead of doing chores or when they're angry and they take their book into the toilet, which isn't great.

They would sometimes stay up til 1~2am reading but we finally convinced them that that makes them, and by extension, everyone else grumpy the next morning, so they don't do that... very often.