In a world full of facts, fakes, and feelings, critical thinking is what keeps us from mistaking popularity for truth.

Education systems need to focus more on independent critical thinking and rational, evidence-based learning and problem-solving to find answers to many of the unprecedented environmental, social, and ...

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

The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.

In a recent post, I discussed social barriers to applying critical thinking. I received interesting feedback on this particular topic and I thought further discussion around this dialogue would be of ...

Deep thinking is in short supply in today’s work environment, where the distractions are many, the work is intense, and task-oriented productivity rules the day. When you ask people when or where they ...

Whenever school holidays loom, many parents find themselves caught in an emotional tug-of-war: on the one hand, relief at bidding farewell to homework battles ...

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We’re entering a new era where artificial intelligence can generate content faster than we can apply critical thinking. In mere seconds, AI can summarize long reports, write emails in our tone and ...

Rather than teaching students to interrogate all premises, “critical thinking” demands they adopt a position of unwavering faith in liberal conventions. And yet, even after Americans have been ...

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 ...

Facing an endless stream of AI-generated content, I tested the digital literacy skill of 'critical ignoring' for one week.