Last night was the Philosophical Thinking Seminar and the Expression Skills Thinking Seminar. In the Expression Skills Seminar, we assign a task each time, have participants write an essay on it, and ...

Each transition looks, at close range, like loss. Over time, each has expanded what humans can produce and redirected human attention toward more demanding problems. (AI Image) Something quietly ...

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In the previous installment of this series on the future of higher education, I talked with professors about the ways that A.I. has changed their classrooms. Most felt despair over the breakdown of a ...

Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...

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Study after study has revealed that artificial intelligence is adversely affecting students’ ability to think critically, solve problems, and formulate their own ideas without the assistance of ...

The problem wasn’t just the perfectly polished, yet mediocre prose. It’s what’s lost when we surrender the struggle to translate thought into words I have been teaching fiction writing at MIT since ...

Learn how to solve equations from word problems. A word problem is a real-world simulation of a mathematics principle. We can solve equation(s) from word problems by first understanding what the ...