UChicago Bans Laptops, Devices For 1st Year Law Students
“Across all 1L sections, we will prohibit the use of electronic devices such as laptops, tablets, and phones in the classroom. There will be some limited exceptions to this policy. For instance, professors can designate classroom “scribes” who can use electronic devices to take notes for the class, professors can authorize electronic device use for […]
UChicago Commits Deeply To Use Of AI
“The University has a duty of care to ensure that the education offered to you is responsive to these technological developments by teaching you how to think with machines, how to think without them, and how to think about them… As a next step in the University of Chicago’s overall approach to artificial intelligence (AI), […]
AI Adoption By Work Industry – Survey of 100,000 Workers
Reminder: “The Mere Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity”
“Results from two experiments indicate that even when people are successful at maintaining sustained attention—as when avoiding the temptation to check their phones—the mere presence of these devices reduces available cognitive capacity. More- over, these cognitive costs are highest for those highest in smartphone dependence.”
Teachers Influence The Creativity Of Their Students (Via Music Composition)
Reflections On The Limits Of Computational Analyses Of Literature
“The Predictive Power Of 9th-Grade GPA” (via Chicago Public Schools)
A Good Framework Synthesizing Noncognitive Factors In Learning
On Neutrality: The Text Of The 1967 Kalven Report of Chicago
“The instrument of dissent and criticism is the individual faculty member or the individual student. The university is the home and sponsor of critics; it is not itself the critic.”