Leaders who decry the demise of critical thinking often fail to nurture atmospheres that encourage it or even model it ...

Over the past few years, the use of AI has grown to such an extent that it just might be taking over your capacity to think.

A Workday report revealed that nearly half of workers are concerned about AI agents eroding their critical thinking skills.

Social media is where teenagers spend most of their time, either scrolling and sharing, or sometimes falling into the traps ...

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 ...

Millions of people are now asking chatbots to summarize books, draft emails, and even explain political events to them. But what looks from one perspective like a productivity revolution may also be ...

This simple “critical thinking prompt” forces AI to challenge your assumptions instead of agreeing with you — and it ...

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 ...

The company claims the model demonstrates performance comparable to GPT-5.2-Thinking, Claude-Opus-4.5, and Gemini 3 Pro. Alibaba Cloud’s latest AI model, Qwen3-Max-Thinking, is staking a claim as one ...

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 ...

Critical thinking springs from the notion of reflective thought proposed by Dewey (1933), who borrowed from the work of philosophers such as William James and Charles Peirce. Reflective thought was ...

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 ...