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 ...

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 ...

When you ask people when or where they do their best thinking, three common themes emerge: when they are alone, when it’s quiet, and when they aren’t at work. Thinking at work is something that we say ...

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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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 ...

Critical thinking is plainly in decline. Everywhere we look, people are uncritically consuming and spreading information that is distorted, misleading, and sometimes intentionally deceptive.

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 ...

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 ...

The average American checks their phone over 140 times a day, clocking an average of 4.5 hours of daily use, with 57% of ...