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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Critical thinking is no hyped-up educational construct. It's real. In fact, it's an increasingly important and relevant skill for our students to develop. Critical thinking is key to dealing with ...

The comprehensive study, conducted by two cohorts of digital learning interns during the 2024-25 academic year, offers an unprecedented look at AI adoption on college campuses—not through the lens of ...

One of the defining features of human evolution is the emergent capacity of human beings to think about thinking. The ability to think about thinking is often described as a metacognitive skill.

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 ...

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, ...

Canvas and OpenAI just released an example of their new AI integration that should terrify every educator who cares about critical thinking. Promotional material showing how AI will build engaging ...