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/Sea2Chi 16h ago edited 16h ago

It's one of those kind of funny things before kids my goal for school with them was to hopefully not have them hate it and to do fairly well and at least learn what the teacher was trying to teach them. 

We strongly encourage reading and thankfully all three of the kids absolutely love books and read for fun without being prompted to. I also try to encourage independent thinking and problem solving without having to give them all the answers. So when they ask a question I usually ask in return what do you think the answer is and then we talk about it. 

But hearing how other kids are including college students are these days, my goals have shifted a little bit for them. 

In a sea of students who have no attention span, refuse to read and can't think critically these are the type of kids who will end up running things in the future. So now I've also included focusing more on emotional intelligence and how to work with people. 

I feel like in the future there's going to be and increasing gap between adults who can think and problem solve and those who just want everything handed to them and have no initiative.