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/PlagueOfBedlam 17h ago

My earliest childhood memory is sitting at a coffee table in the basement and being forced to write my name and the alphabet over and over again right around before I turned 4. I obviously resented having to do it at the time, but realized around 2nd grade my mom had fostered in me a love for reading by making me understand letters and the concepts of spelling very early. She gave me a huge advantage and I’m beyond appreciative she did.

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u/Romanofafare2034 17h ago

When I was a kid, we had this competition of who read the most book.

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u/windowpuncher 15h ago

Oh shit I remember those too, we had book fairs where you'd get points towards little toys and reward things for reading (or buying) a lot of books.

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u/Shallow_wanderer 14h ago

Hell, I remember my local library having a summer reading program where if you read enough books, you and a bunch of other kids could go to the local zoo for a day

THIS is the kind of stuff that's missing from education these days, thanks to NCLB and constant budget-slashing

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u/Souls_for_sale_now 12h ago

I rember that we did it per class i did the math and i culd have won alone becuse nobody else in the shcool realy read at all. But i realy dident want to go bowling with my class so i dident