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For children who were raised with smartphones, by contrast, that foundation is missing. It is probably no coincidence that the iPhone itself, originally released in 2007, is approaching college age
The effort to just cut to the chase and give us the information has actively destroyed the conditions for understanding and using that information in an intelligent way.
how much of this is the computers and how much of this is the decline in education in general, especially k-12?
I keep meeting first year undergrads who don't know how to touch type in CS programs, or only recently learned it
definitely feel like as much as smartphones and other screens may contribute the actual problem is so much deeper (I'd add that, just from my own experience, having a lot of structured down time—like an hour and a half on public transit each way, or a job staffing a front desk somewhere that's not very busy—is almost a prerequisite for me reading at all. and it seems like a lot of modern life is basically designed to deny people structured downtime as completely as possible)
I also recall reading that millennials and zoomers both use public libraries more than previous generations, but I guess the post-zoomer numbers wouldn't be in yet since they'd still be going—or not—with their parents, or at school