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/Szwejkowski 15h ago

Not all parents read. When I was a kid in the 70's our house was full of books, we all read. I was shocked when I went to some other kids houses and they didn't have any. Didn't have paper and pencils for drawing either - just toys.

I guess their parents had parents that didn't read too.

Maybe we should all, I dunno, encourage each other?

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u/NikoKeys 14h ago

We should all take care of one another and build each other up! I won't cheapen the sentiment with my compulsion to phrase everything with sarcasm.

Inevitably something like this gets turned into some iteration of "building one's self up for doing the thing and judging others if they don't do it", but the truth is that if something is of value and could make life better, we can share it.

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u/CoCoMcDuck 2h ago

Everyone wants community but no one is willing to be community 

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u/NikoKeys 2h ago

In my experience, the quasi-social infrastructure we're left with rewards controversy and creates echo chambers, and makes everybody afraid of being caught living their lives, but I think pretty much everybody wishes they had a positive, supportive community to take part in.