Our college faculty recently held a training session, during which one member shared a striking view of how emerging artificial intelligence will impact our current undergraduates. “Once they enter ...

Fully supporting students means explicitly teaching them critical thinking, Louis E. Newman argues in Thinking Critically in College: The Essential Handbook for Student Success (Radius Book Group).

Out of all the skills today’s students need to develop, critical thinking is perhaps the most important. Critical thinking not only helps students make stronger connections to information they learn ...

In the year-plus since ChatGPT made its public debut, there’s been much speculation about how generative AI tools will transform education—or even destroy it, as some critics have cautioned. However, ...

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 ...

Teenagers today are growing up in a world full of information, but not always full of wisdom. Developing sharp critical thinking skills has become beneficial and important, given the constant streams ...

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and ETS today jointly released the first three Skills ...

A recently published study has found that many college and university students aren’t taught critical thinking skills while enrolled in their course of study. The study “followed 2,322 traditional-age ...

Ninety five percent of faculty are concerned that students will become overly reliant on generative artificial intelligence ...

In teaching Smith’s new journalism course, reporter Nancy Cohen brings front-line experience—as well as big-picture questions—to the classroom. Her Journalism: Principles and Practice course focuses ...

Recent controversy over the role of social media “swarms” in the 2020 election have served as a new reminder — as if we needed one — that public discourse is in bad disrepair. In the last few years ...