As an educator, I firmly believe that nurturing the critical thinking skills of the students is one of the most important aspects of what teachers do. Critical thinking has been cited as allowing ...

Critical thinking is touted as the educational counterpoint to AI and algorithms, but our definitions of it need an update.

Critical thinking is no hyped-up educational construct. It's real. In fact, it's an increasingly important and relevant skill for our students to develop. Analytical thinking, to call it by its other ...

Emma, a college sophomore, stares at her screen. Her professor just assigned an essay on Kafka’s Metamorphosis and her fingers hover immediately over ChatGPT. ‘Why struggle,’ she thinks, ‘when AI can ...

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 ...

IN the 1980s, government, academic, non-profit and corporate leaders determined that students would need 21st-century skills such as critical thinking, communication, collaboration and creativity. But ...

During my Ph.D. studies, I recall focusing on reconceptualising what we know of as critical thinking to include reflective judgment (not jumping to conclusions and taking your time in your ...

GPS ruined our sense of direction. Search engines weaken our memory. AI, scientists warn, could do the same to everything from creativity to critical thinking. Years ago, I forced myself to start ...

Universities need to create the environment for imaginative thinking. This requires them to reimagine their role — one driven less by metrics, rankings, short-term, quantifiable outcomes and the ...