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I love point 5. No computers or tablets in class! That is the challenge! The course sounds amazing. Lucky students.

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If you just say it up front (“no laptops or tablets or devices”), don’t remotely flinch when doing so or hem and haw / apologize, and explain a few studies and explain why, and allow them to leave, they buy into it I found. I’m also committing to only use the white board and the document camera. I will otherwise automate making slides with AI and that’s just been a huge face plant in the past for me as I don’t work nearly as hard.

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Indeed, I will do that, say upfront. Without devices students definetely get more engaged.

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Well. You gotme inpired a as Tacher. I cite:

"I am warning them about the dangers of thinking you can “automate knowledge creation” as humans still must and always will have to exert labor in the form of time use to learn things. The question is whether they will figure out how to do so. It’s not a question of whether AI can do this; it’s a question of whether they will figure it out."

So, I'm thinking about use cellulars or laps in class. There's to avoid distraction. Last course I sent them by wassap, previously, the powerpoint to checki trough class. Well, I not use yet IA in class. I could maybe for selfquestions, broad concepts, facts, in class instead outside, maybe in the firsts classes by theme.

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Maybe the fight is between power points by teacher and the self built and shared map by student 😃

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I got it. It 's to explain the production funtion, then open the knowing suply. Going from teacher monopoly to students broad market (I don't know if call It competence). We must registrate the know-how. It's an market ideas (R. Coase) oportunity. Once we focused "the use of know in society" (F. Hayek) literally to stimulate participación.

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It's an exciting time--not only are students now going to be able to build cooler functioning things earlier in their education, but I feel like lectures and class time could become more engaging experiences. I wonder whether the class experience will feel more "flipped" (in the Sal Khan sense). Given we can't guarantee homework provides signal of effort/learning so much anymore, more in-class assessment seems reasonable. I wonder if we are going to regain memory skills as a people #MnemotechnicsUnite #RateMyMemoryPalace #FlashcardsAreBack #DustOffThatLeitnerBox.

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I really love how you've designed this class! The books seem awesome – they look like they'll help me understand AI concepts before diving headfirst into some number-crunching empirical work. Can't wait to see how this unfolds!

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Love the thought process you've followed here. I'm helping design a learning module for my organisation and your there's some great insight in here. Thanks for sharing!

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