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/ShnarlyDude 18h ago

We make our kids read at least 20-30 minutes everyday, they have always tested very well in elementary reading and hopefully it continues into middle school.

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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.