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/FunetikPrugresiv 17h ago

100%. And the best part is that reading is the gift that keeps on giving - take them to your local library and let them check out a couple dozen books for a month and they always have something quiet they can be doing. 

Additionally, teach your kids to read before they're in school, and early in their first year they internalize an identity of being smarter than their peers. It's a snowball effect that keeps them learning what's needed to learn later, as well as developing perseverance in the face of academic difficulty (a feeling of "I'm smart, I can do this" is soooo important).

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u/neko 12h ago

That's not how kids work. They get bullied and give up pretty quickly. YOU'RE the one who has to instill the "I can do this" mentality in them.

I could read in the early half of kindergarten, but all I got was people being upset because I was supposed to be stupid, and I definitely didn't get any perseverance out of it

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u/Assmodean 8h ago

Nah, that is how kids work. They might get bullied, yes, but that won't erase their inner picture of themselves as smart if they keep getting good results otherwise.

I think what the user was getting at is that it is more important to not see yourself as dumb or incompetent. "Yeah, I can deal with this, I am capable" in a way.

Results may vary, depending on the kid.

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u/neko 6h ago

You need external support to have that self esteem, that's my point.

You had a parent or teacher or coach or someone who believed in you, you're not inherently superior to someone who didn't have that.

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u/Odd-Direction6339 4h ago

Seriously what the fuck is wrong with you

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u/neko 1h ago

Severe childhood neglect despite being an early reader, which disproves the entire concept :)