Re:Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class
by add-sub-mul-div on Friday December 12, 2025 @11:37PM
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Reversing it? We're on the cusp of the LLM era. You're on a site full of people trying to sell one kind of summarization or another as so thoroughly a replacement for reading full original texts that it can't be questioned without raising hackneyed accusations of objecting to the invention of the calculator. Before long people who read full novels will be seen the way we now see people who listen to music on vinyl.
Re:Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class
by youhatetheleft on Saturday December 13, 2025 @10:46AM
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My suggestion is get kids into audiobooks first and then get them reading, also don’t let kids watch tv or have a smart phone I wasn’t allowed to watch tv during the week as a kid, and I have neck problems because I read so much. Now I’m lucky if I get through a book a year.
In no world would I consider a person who says "it's okay if the next generation is illiterate" an education expert.
And the guy selling excerpts software says there's no data suggesting a deep, unsolvable flaw in his product. Cool.
> Timothy Shanahan, a leading literacy scholar and an author of the StudySync curriculum, said there was no data suggesting that students become stronger readers when they are assigned full novels.
... If anyone is working on reversing this I'd love to hear where you're starting.