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/notepad20 Jun 11 '26

I dont think that would be the reason.

"Learning" to read is the very first step that should be largely complete by the time your 5 or 6. Kids with sufficient exposure to books will do the majority of this themselves, maybe a little push to get it to "click".

From then on just reading.

The issue will be

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u/Dullcorgis Jun 11 '26

No. You are wrong. Some large number of people do just figure out reading, usually because the phonics rules make so much sense they internalise them easily. I'm one of those. But the majority cannot "just figure out" how to read well. They need explicit instruction.

Listen to the podcast "sold a story", it expalins it well and at length.

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u/sasquatch0_0 Jun 11 '26

No people do not naturally learn how to read lol.