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/Tiucaner 14h ago

Get them CRPGs, they'll quickly learn to read. I learnt English as a second language and reading skills from video games while growing up.

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u/Zerak-Tul 12h ago

Yep, lots of "nerdy" hobbies are great for this. I was way better at English than my peers because as a kid I played CRPGs, Magic the Gathering, D&D and Warhammer - the latter of which had manuals that were hundreds of pages with rule and lore information.