Reading comprehension scores are tanking, and fewer Americans are picking up books. But practicing deep reading can help you ...

"Leaders are losing critical thinking to AI and scrolling. Reading rebuilds it. A practical guide to starting and protecting ...

Nancy Butler Songer argues that learning with artificial intelligence is contributing to the erosion of critical thinking ...

Generative AI can become a substitute for rigorous research and thinking, but it can also be a tool that helps people think ...

At the beginning of 2021, I posted a piece on this blog asking if any readers wanted to develop their critical thinking as a kind of New Year’s resolution. In light of the positive feedback I received ...

In a series of experiments described in Science Magazine in 2011, a trio of researchers found evidence to support a sneaking suspicion bubbling up in the minds of many Google aficionados: Frequent ...

A research article by Horace He and the Thinking Machines Lab (X-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati founded) addresses a long-standing issue in large language models (LLMs). Even with greedy decoding bu setting ...

GenAI tools are increasingly used in academic settings, yet little is known about how they affect higher-order thinking during critical reading and ...

Keeping a few key questions in mind may help detect bad faith arguments and half-baked ideas. In A Nutshell Swedish researchers tested whether written instructions alone could help people evaluate ...

I t has been almost 70 years since the term “artificial intelligence” was coined at a 1956 Dartmouth College summer workshop. The conference was convened by the mathematician John McCarthy, who ...

Achievement discrepancies among U.S. students remain persistent and troubling–despite decades of targeted interventions and whole-school improvement programs. To make real gains, teachers need to ...