As an educator, I firmly believe that nurturing the critical thinking skills of the students is one of the most important aspects of what teachers do. Critical thinking has been cited as allowing ...

Out of all the skills today’s students need to develop, critical thinking is perhaps the most important. Critical thinking not only helps students make stronger connections to information they learn ...

When I first began focusing on the development of student critical thinking skills in the early 1990s, I discussed ideas for a research project with the partner of a CPA firm. I recall being quite ...

Maybe it’s just me, but it feels as though AI is starting to take over the world. To be clear, I don’t mean this in an “evil robots” sort of way. Rather, in a short amount of time, AI has become ...

Artificial intelligence is playing an increasingly dominant role in how students navigate school, and some teachers are warning the technology could be hurting their critical thinking skills. Why it ...

Does outsourcing your cognition come at a cost? As the emergence of artificial intelligence continues to revolutionize aspects of modern life, including education, a new study from the Center for ...

Students raise their hands to answer a teacher's question at the KIPP Academy in the South Bronx, part of a network of public middle schools that is becoming a model for educating poor children. KIPP ...

Boost student engagement through the core concepts of computational thinking: decomposition, pattern recognition, abstraction, and algorithmic thinking. In this session, you’ll learn how to integrate ...

In 2013, while a first-year student at Yale School of Medicine (YSM), Dr. Robert Rock found inspiration in the university’s museum collections. He had participated in a workshop at the Yale Center for ...

No longer a technological novelty, generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has become a common tool for everyday academic ...

The data, both empirical and intuitive, could not be more clear: Generic, direct-answer and productivity AI platforms, most notably OpenAI’s ChatGPT, are dumbing down an entire generation of students, ...