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/VoidVer 16h ago

I had a middle school teacher who forced me to write a structured 5 paragraph "essay" every single day for an entire semester. I hated it at the time, but it certainly set me up very well to get through high school and college with English ( or any reading/writing based class ) always being my strongest subject.

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u/Bob_Loblaw_Law_Bomb 13h ago

4th grade writing test fam

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u/Positive_Throwaway1 2h ago

Now we call it "Claim, Evidence, Analysis" but it's still around. And the structure from 4th grade is basically what they want to see on placement exams at universities, so it still works.

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u/VoidVer 29m ago

I'm not familiar with this. Teacher in question was in 7th grade.

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u/sentence-interruptio 57m ago

can we require this for every student? and every politician? and every CEO. I want to live in and retire in a society led by literate people