#mit study
Senwitt pages tagged mit study — blog posts, answers, glossary terms, research, and more.
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Is ChatGPT actually making students lazy? Sorting the evidence
A close read of the MIT cognitive debt study, Cal Newport's New Yorker essay, and The Conversation's earlier coverage — and what the evidence actually supports about ChatGPT and student thinking.
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What the MIT cognitive debt study actually shows (and what reporters keep getting wrong)
A careful read of the 2025 MIT Media Lab cognitive debt study — what it tested, what it found, what coverage often overstates, and what it means for daily practice.
- glossary
Cognitive debt
Cognitive debt is the gap between what AI helps you produce and what you actually encode while producing it — coined by the 2025 MIT Media Lab study on LLM-assisted essay writing.
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AI cognitive debt — what the MIT study says.
The MIT cognitive debt study explained.
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Your Brain on ChatGPT.
Kosmyna 2025 deep dive + Stanković 2026 critique.