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 ...
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Michael Hicks: Ask students why they learned

A college education is designed to change a person’s way of knowing, from one based on personal experience to one based on ...
Critical thinking empowers students to question information, evaluate sources, recognize bias and make sound decisions. It is the difference between accepting an answer and understanding why that ...
Are you among the many instructors who feel like a deer in the headlights when it comes to AI? You aren’t sure how to keep up with the technology, yet you know students are using it. And your college ...
Artificial intelligence is playing an increasingly dominant role in how students navigate school, and some teachers are warning the technology could be hurting their critical thinking skills. Why it ...
The data, both empirical and intuitive, could not be more clear: Generic, direct-answer and productivity AI platforms, most notably OpenAI’s ChatGPT, are dumbing down an entire generation of students, ...
In 2013, while a first-year student at Yale School of Medicine (YSM), Dr. Robert Rock found inspiration in the university’s museum collections. He had participated in a workshop at the Yale Center for ...
No longer a technological novelty, generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has become a common tool for everyday academic ...
It is an important part of a democracy for citizens to be critical thinkers who question the status quo. Do we want to live in a world where youth passively accept media propaganda, submit to dictator ...