The discipline-independent course helps students build critical thinking skills while giving faculty a framework to integrate ...

Thinking models, like the new 2.5 Pro (experimental), are designed to improve AI's reasoning capabilities. Unlike traditional AI models that primarily focus on generating text, thinking models break ...

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 ...

I’ve been waiting for Gemini 3.0 to roll out like a kid waiting for Christmas day. At the same time, OpenAI is quietly preparing another major AI upgrade and it could arrive just in time to steal the ...

Discussions of cognitive offloading often miss a critical distinction: What AI does to a 45-year-old's brain is categorically ...

Although it was a relatively streamlined process, some degree of effort and curiosity was still required to effectively use ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...