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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Do we need to teach children how to think? This is the focus of Nord Anglia Education’s newly published research, in collaboration with Boston College. By embedding metacognitive practices into ...

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 ...

Two weeks into our 11th-grade American Revolution project, I walked over to Sofia’s group and sighed. The students were deep into a research rabbit hole about a yellow fever outbreak. The goal was to ...

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 ...

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 ...

For many years, educators have envisioned personalized learning as a way to tailor education to each student's unique needs. With advances in artificial intelligence, this vision is becoming a reality ...

When it comes to learning in the digital age, cultivating strong digital literacy skills is paramount for students’ success. As technology continues to shape every facet of modern life, proficiency in ...

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, ...

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