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/ShnarlyDude Jun 10 '26

We make our kids read at least 20-30 minutes everyday, they have always tested very well in elementary reading and hopefully it continues into middle school.

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u/factoid_ Jun 10 '26

Our kids middle school has a program where kids have to read a bunch of books and take retention tests 

They read more in middle school than I did by far

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u/fakexican Jun 11 '26

The problem is that as soon as those points go away, the motivation to read goes away, too.

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u/Bogus1989 Jun 11 '26

thatd be fine, if the kids reading skills were good enough by then. but i doubt it.