When she applied to Baylor Holly Hill, Fla., junior Natalie Lu initially believed her general education math course would be ...

The University of Auckland’s Dr. Maree Davies recommends teaching kids critical thinking to show them how to be safe and in ...

Next time you’re about to ask an AI chatbot to help you solve a hard problem, you might want to slow your roll. People who waited to consult an AI chatbot until they had partially worked through a ...

It’s not just teachers who are worried about AI’s effect on students’ abilities to think critically. Students are concerned, too, according to a new survey of middle, high school, and college students ...

Universities are rushing head‑first into the generative AI era. Across campuses, chatbots like ChatGPT have become so common that many instructors now assume students are already using them, and some ...

Since the Ronald Reagan era, we have heard arguments that studying liberal arts or the humanities is a waste of time or, at the very least, hardly the most sagacious path for college students to ...

Critical thinking has always been one of the key skills not only in learning but in life in general. With the advent of artificial intelligence and the proliferation of all kinds of information online ...

Cognitive offloading is a significant risk — The correlation between increased AI usage and decreased critical thinking, known as cognitive offloading, poses a threat to effective legal practice, ...

Students see news everywhere. They read headlines between classes, watch videos on the way home, and hear opinions long before a lesson starts. Independent media plays a role in how they understand ...

Socrates wasn’t the greatest fan of the written word. Famous for leaving no texts to posterity, the great philosopher is said to have believed that a reliance on writing destroys the memory and ...

In a new paper, researchers from Tencent AI Lab Seattle and the University of Maryland, College Park, present a reinforcement learning technique that enables large language models (LLMs) to utilize ...