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40% of Kids Can't Read and Teachers Are Quitting [video]

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Post by crises-luff-6b »

b3lvedere wrote: post #4
werdnapk wrote: post #2

From the summary of video: "40% of fourth graders can't read. Kids are asking their teachers why they need to learn to read when AI can do it for them. Social media has destroyed their attention spans and now teachers aren't teaching, instead they're managing withdrawal symptoms." Why are fourth graders on social media and using AI already? My fourth grade kid has no social media presence and definitely isn't familia…

Not all parents on this planet are investing in their offspring. Some parents also miss the required knowledge. Getting the required knowledge could be a society problem.

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Re: 40% of Kids Can't Read and Teachers Are Quitting [video]

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Post by b3lvedere »

emmelaich wrote: post #5

Australia's social media ban for young teenagers is probably a good thing but time will tell.

While, as a parent, i don't like social media in its current form and the effect it has on ALL people, one must not forget that the 'fight' between old and young people has been going for at least 2500 years now. ( https://historyhustle.com/2500-years-of-people-complaining-a... ). I also recommend watching the movie 'The Boat That Rocked' ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1131729/ )

Re: 40% of Kids Can't Read and Teachers Are Quitting [video]

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Post by _diyar »

While I appreciate the sentiment of the video, I can‘t get past the sensationalist rhetoric / framing of the problem.

„Skibidi Toilet is rotting brains!! Kids don‘t want cartoons!!“.

I suppose videos like this might get people to think about the problem who hadn‘t considered it before.

Re: 40% of Kids Can't Read and Teachers Are Quitting [video]

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werdnapk wrote: post #2

From the summary of video: "40% of fourth graders can't read. Kids are asking their teachers why they need to learn to read when AI can do it for them. Social media has destroyed their attention spans and now teachers aren't teaching, instead they're managing withdrawal symptoms." Why are fourth graders on social media and using AI already? My fourth grade kid has no social media presence and definitely isn't familia…

A lot of people want to have kids but don't want to be parents. There are a lot of kids who spend hours on tablets watching TikTok and so on before they even reached first grade.
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