Winchester College rations devices: 'cognitive skills matter more in the AI age'
NinaDSchick · x · 2026-10-13
Historian Niall Ferguson praised Winchester College's approach of rationing students' access to devices, arguing young people can only learn to read, think, calculate and write if device use is limited — and that traditional cognitive skills matter more, not less, in the age of AI. AI author Nina Schick retweeted in agreement.
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