College professors are noticing a concerning trend where students are struggling to read longer texts, with many now finding anything over 10 pages intimidating. This shift has been observed over the past few years, with students lacking the ability to effectively comprehend readings, even as short as 20 pages. Factors such as reduced attention spans due to smartphones and disrupted education during the Covid era are believed to contribute to this issue.
College Students Basically Don’t Know How to Read Anymore https://t.co/1i0OCnx9Ly
The college students not being able to read anymore is phones, it’s all phones, sure talk about whatever public policy or social thing you want to but we all know it’s phones. Just think, why can’t you read anymore?
This was the most astonishing thing about teaching freshmen at Cornell this fall: students who had never read anything longer than a reading comprehension excerpt for the SAT. https://t.co/86oL8XBGje https://t.co/p758WqWPxZ
College students these days can barely do their assigned reading. Not a surprise when you consider how colleges gutted objective admissions standards, how smartphones shrank teens’ attention spans, and how schools were kept closed for way too long during the Covid era. https://t.co/Z49ZvplkRL
“Now students are intimidated by anything over 10 pages and seem to walk away from readings of as little as 20 pages with no real understanding.” https://t.co/0wJJUAjohw
"Ten years into my college teaching career, students stopped being able to read effectively." Oh gosh. https://t.co/UEdWBtGDTp
"In the past five years, it’s as though someone flipped a switch. For most of my career, I assigned around 30 pages of reading per class meeting as a baseline expectation. Now students are intimidated by anything over 10 pages." — college professor Adam Kotsko
Article here: https://t.co/smLTCVJI3i "For most of my career, I assigned around 30 pages of reading per class meeting as a baseline expectation... Now students are intimidated by anything over 10 pages and seem to walk away from readings of as little as 20 pages with no real… https://t.co/jWTjhp0WnH
"Now students are intimidated by anything over 10 pages... "Considerable class time is taken up simply establishing what happened in a story or the basic steps of an argument—skills I used to be able to take for granted." https://t.co/3y9Kj3Sb8I