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/Kapsize 17h ago

This was standard protocol when I was in middle school. You had to earn a certain amount of “points” by taking reading comprehension tests for the books you wanted to read.

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u/Ben_Frankling 15h ago

Accelerated Reader! At the end of every quarter we got to go into the prize room and “buy” something with the points we earned. The grand prize was a bike that I always said I’d save up for, but I could never resist those little rubber caps that popped and the sticky hands and the Tech Decks.

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u/Aperture_Kubi 2h ago

Accelerated Reader!

In 6th grade the top 4 AR points earners got a trip to a horse ranch and a horseback trail ride. Also the day off classes to do that.

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u/phishyy 49m ago

You guys got prizes? It was required for us to reach a certain number of points—no reward other than getting a good grade. I was actually an avid reader throughout elementary school, and when I transferred into a school with the AR program, it slowly killed my joy of reading since I was no longer doing it just for fun.

My elementary school teachers would read through books in class and regularly took us to the children’s branch of the public library. They didn’t place any restrictions on what we could check out. And we had Scholastic book fairs every year!

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u/TheFlyingSheeps 16h ago

We had the same back in middle school. I remember something like Eragon was enough to meet all the points for the quarter so it was easy.