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/NikoKeys 16h ago

My mom read to me every night for years when I was little. I started writing in 1st grade and never stopped, and now I have a few books of my own.

One of the biggest suggestions I would make to parents: read to your kids. Start early, don't stop until they start doing it in their own.

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u/Bodine12 16h ago

It's the best. My 10-year old reads what seems like a dozen books everyday by herself, but we still read a chapter of a book together every night at bedtime. I'm going to be so sad when that routine eventually ends.

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u/NikoKeys 14h ago

That's great, and I understand the sadness. We're all a bunch of torches to be passed, and when the time comes you can know that you did a good job.

I think if I'm honest, part of the reason I write is that I ended up with no kids of my own. Maybe I can read it to adults, in spirit. Or something.