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Gen Alpha Still Can’t Read (And Teachers Are Quitting)


https://youtube.com/watch?v=NYKLer3T7-M

Vanessa Wingårdh usually posts videos about technical developments in AI. But here, she's connecting AI with the scary and dramatic drop in the number of American students who can barely read.
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And many high school graduates, and even college students, can't tell the time from an analog clock. :worried:

https://avalonlibrary.net/Bill/analog_clock.jpg

Bumping this thread with another short video, mainly TikTok reports from despairing (and unbelieving!) teachers. There's nothing here that's not been posted above, but it's another revealing...

I'm opening this thread as a (sort of) companion thread to Deschooling Society, which I started a little earlier today.

'Deschooling' in itself won't solve the illiteracy problem, of course. There...