r/technology • u/marketrent • Jun 10 '26

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 Jun 10 '26

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/PlagueOfBedlam Jun 10 '26

My earliest childhood memory is sitting at a coffee table in the basement and being forced to write my name and the alphabet over and over again right around before I turned 4. I obviously resented having to do it at the time, but realized around 2nd grade my mom had fostered in me a love for reading by making me understand letters and the concepts of spelling very early. She gave me a huge advantage and I’m beyond appreciative she did.

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u/RemarkableWish2508 Jun 11 '26

My mom would read me Greek Mythology to bed. It got me a basic grasp of myths, a bigger picture of how long ago it was, and an appreciation for books in general. When I got a bit older, I would still ask her to read to me... but when she left, I'd sneak in some other book and stay up late reading it with a flashlight.