# How screens have damaged teenagers’ ability to pass reading tests

https://mins.news/en/video/61617

- DW News, 2026-09-16 20:15 UTC
- Society
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziiVJLvpXp8

> Tests show a rapid global decline in reading skills among 15-year-olds, from Germany to China. Experts Maryanne Wolf and Andreas Schleicher discuss the worrying trend, the rise of hurried reading, screens’ effects on the brain, AI’s role and how society might restore “deep reading.”