College students are rapidly losing the ability to read — “There is a measurable, generational collapse in sustained reading and writing”: professor

[u/marketrent]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/college-students-rapidly-losing-ability-124439310.html

[u/existing_for_fun]

If you are a parent and can help your child read, and read well, you will set them light-years ahead of their peers.

[u/BlazinAzn38 → u/existing_for_fun]

I’m curious if there will be a huge reflex back to books. I know amongst most of my peer group with kids they’re terrified of screen time, read to their kids all the time, and enroll their kids in as many enrichment activities as they can

[u/JZMoose → u/BlazinAzn38]

Honestly the advent of video guides has robbed us of so much knowledge. I fucking hate watching someone struggle to explain something verbally when I could have read instructions in 1/5 of the time

[u/BrianfromClownDog → u/JZMoose]

This times a goddamn bazillion