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Dominic Bristow's avatar

I love the passing notes example. I found myself recently referring to the idea that using a dictionary in class would’ve been taboo but eventually became the act of a true scholar, in reference to use of AI in school. But you wouldn’t want a student using a dictionary in class if it wasn’t for a task, never mind a book,

Dictionaries; computers; the Internet; AI. Phones contain the first, are the second and use the third to access the fourth…. Unfathomable magical portals in their pockets to all the world’s knowledge and distractions.

Smacks of the frog still in the boiling water that they are in school at all for me.

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Will Orr-Ewing's avatar

Haidt didn’t ask him outright about phones in schools but Tyler Cowen would, on the basis of his conversation, probably approve. He seemed more concerned about limiting opportunities for the most able than he did about their impact on the median student:

https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/jonathan-haidt-anxious-generation

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