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@mirijb2 A device ban, like any other successful exercise of classroom authority, requires careful rhetorical framing and managing expectations.

I sent them a detailed message, eight days before the course began, explaining the unconventional course structure. Highlighting the ban.

I sent them a 90 second video of me in the empty auditorium, five days before the course began, explaining the unconventional course structure. Highlighting the ban.

We spent the first meeting reading and discussing Zohan et al. (2026, link below), which articulates a cautionary hypothesis about cognitive losses from LLM use (inter alia). And we dissected the rather subtle, but dramatic, graph derived from Strömberg et al. (2026, image below) that made the rounds last week.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s44271-026-00402-1

They themselves universally report using LLMs, simultaneously with a widespread and very clear concern over the cognitive and social risks (as well as the economic and ecological ones).

The end of that discussion was the moment I invited them to commit to having two 75 minute meetings a week that are "human only."

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