The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.

Have you ever thought why professors should only appraise students’ understanding of concepts taught in class through continuous assessment tests (CATs) and exams? Usually, such questions and related ...

Collin Lucken is a Hastings Postdoctoral Scholar in AI and Humanity at Bowdoin, a role he started in September 2025. He came here from Cincinnati, where he recently completed a Master’s in Robotics ...

Thinking on paper is a structured approach to learning that emphasizes externalizing your thoughts to reduce mental overload and improve understanding. As explained by Justin Sung, this method ...

Despite the fact that Joe Biden has won the presidential election, bitterness and divisiveness between the almost equally divided one hundred and forty million Trump and Biden supporters persists. In ...

I recently wrote a research paper on cognitive barriers to critical thinking (CT), discussing flaws in thinking associated with intuitive judgment, emotion, bias, and epistemological misunderstanding, ...

Editor’s note: The intersections of art and education are often overlooked. The Seattle Times will periodically publish pieces by young people in Washington about their perspectives on these subjects.

Critical thinking is a vital, yet often neglected, skill. In higher education, Chris Griffiths, author of “The Creative Thinking Handbook,” noted in a TLNT blog article that critical thinking is “the ...

That’s the whisper in lecture halls, the temptation in browser tabs, and the callow counsel passed among today’s undergraduates as though it were an indispensable life hack, or even a godsend. More ...