Students will design and complete a research-based project that applies critical thinking and skepticism to analyze a pseudoscientific claim. The purpose is to distinguish science from pseudoscience ...

In the age of artificial intelligence, researchers at Cornell University have created an online module aimed at helping students build one of higher education’s most enduring—and often ...

For Harvard and its students to keep up to date, it makes sense to inform students of the workings of AI. But perhaps the ...

Critical thinking is a fundamental cognitive process that enables individuals to objectively analyze, evaluate and interpret information to make informed decisions and solve complex problems. It ...

We in academe must do more to ensure today’s students become tomorrow’s skilled thinkers. Fortunately, we are in a position to do so without having to overturn the current higher education system or ...

I recently received an email from an educator friend, asking me to briefly describe the skills necessary for critical thinking. They were happy to fill in the blanks themselves from outside reading ...

Not long after the publication of my book, Critical Thinking: Conceptual Perspectives and Practical Guidelines, by Cambridge University Press, Psychology Today contacted me and asked me to write a ...

Harvard College has added an AI literacy module to its freshman expository writing courses, despite prohibiting generative AI use in assignments. The decision has prompted debate over whether ...