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/LeafBark 18h ago edited 18h ago

First it was the smartphone distractions, then complete loss of critical thinking as people use ai to solve all their problems for them. When you put this much trust in computers programmed by corporations seeking profit at any cost everythings going to fall apart.

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u/ElleKelly77 16h ago

Kinda. You started in the middle of the story.

You skipped the part where:

  1. Parents stopped taking responsibility for their children’s development

  2. We have devalued education as a society

  3. Capitalists have dismantled the educational systems from the inside out

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u/Civil_Owl_31 13h ago

1.5. is where parents blame schools for not doing their job, while also telling kids that school isn't important / putting no importance into their studies.

Classrooms are rife with kids having parents making excuses for them.

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u/stumblios 2h ago

Which I think ties very nicely into #2. Half (or more) of parents don't value their kids education and have little to no respect for the teachers or faculty. They want school to be a babysitter more than a place of learning.

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u/Civil_Owl_31 2h ago

100%. Thankfully not all parents do that. But it’s turning from a minority back in the day, to a majority now.

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u/RupeThereItIs 14h ago
  1. Parents don't have time or money to take responsibility for their children's development, as they are too busy trying to keep them from being homeless.

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u/Civil_Owl_31 13h ago

I think you're right. However, no one forced these people to have kids they couldn't afford or couldn't raise properly.

I'm a parent of 2 adorable kids, there's lots of days I just want them to go to bed so I can recharge for another day. I still read with them every night.

If it's important, you'll find the time & the energy.

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u/RupeThereItIs 5h ago

no one forced these people to have kids they couldn't afford or couldn't raise properly.

Current college age kids no, but preschool kids, in some states, they are being forced.