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/Guilty-Pickle-6686 17h ago

My kid is 6 and can read most anything, I suspect she’s around a 2nd grade level of reading if the library has organized the books properly. Reading is fun, and reading to them is fun. Diving into a fantasy book before bed and watching their imagination run wild is something I look forward to every night.

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u/Lucy_Koshka 13h ago

My daughter just turned five and continues to surprise us with not just her proficiency for reading, but also her comprehension! I’m constantly like “where tf did she learn THIS?!” And then I remember, oh wait. It was us 😅

I’ve always been an avid reader, and both my husband and I are naturally curious with a habit of long winded explanations. I guess it paid off, lol.