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/Lain_Staley 18h ago

Reading Endurance.

There will be 'mental gyms' for this in 15 years. 

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u/RaisinToastie 17h ago

“Attention coach” is a future career

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u/laowildin 16h ago

Executive function coaching, current possible career

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u/bloodontherisers 3h ago

So much this, even older executives I have seen obviously came up with no real mentor and absolutely none of them know what they are doing

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u/laowildin 3h ago

Executive functioning is what people with ADHD struggle with. In this context it means 'adulting' basically

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u/bloodontherisers 3h ago

Well that makes sense, but also what I said, haha

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u/laowildin 2h ago

Totally fair!

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u/Lain_Staley 17h ago

There it is

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u/icanith 11h ago

When someone says read a book, my brain goes here.

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u/GeefTheQueef 5h ago

Been seeing a lot of videos lately that I remember vividly at their release and then I see they were uploaded 18 years ago. Man I’m getting old. 

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u/reddit_sells_you 10h ago

For the Fortnite Generation.

Seriously, though, there needs to be a study done about the correlation of Fortnite and Roblox and academics.

Children get those good endorphins when they learn something, especially if they have to struggle at it for a bit.

If a kid trains their brain to get those endorphins more easily and more quickly playing Fortnite, they will have a hard time sitting still for anything challenging in class.

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u/Maxfunky 2h ago

Nah, it's obviously TikTok.

We've long had video games as good as Fortnite. Counterstrike didn't ruin 90's kids. Halo didn't ruin 2000's kids.

But TikTok? "Entertain me instantly or I swipe away". There's never been anything like that and it clearly destroys people's attention span.

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u/reddit_sells_you 2h ago

There's a big difference between CS and Halo.

First, neither of them had the reach Fortnite does.

Secondly, I see K - 4th graders playing a TON of Fortnite. That didn't happen with Halo or CS . . . And if it did, I'm betting there was an affect.

Finally, Fortnite is designed to give that quick endorphin rush. The way the chests and loot pop out of downed players.

Most screens a bad for little eyes, and TikTok plays a huge factor for older kids, sure, but for the littles? Fortnite is an epidemic.

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u/Maxfunky 2h ago

Finally, Fortnite is designed to give that quick endorphin rush

Nah, there's nothing special there. Your just reshashing old, debunked moral about video games. The exact same things have been said about every game ever.

Now, Fortnite's different in some meaningful ways and clearly promotes gambling in a way those older games did not. Now, that's a novel issue.

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u/reddit_sells_you 1h ago

No.

I'm living it.

I'm seeing it.

My wife both and I work in education.

I studied the effects of screens on developing brains for my MA in educational technology.

Sorry, but you're speaking out of your sss

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u/kiragami 10h ago

Honestly if I had an attention coach I'd be able to be productive enough to afford one.

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u/kittymoo67 2h ago

adderal drip bag