Most classrooms that use AI in 2026 are teaching students how to use it. Fewer are teaching students how to question it.

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 ...

The critical thinking literature (e.g., Bensley, 2023) suggests assessment of critical thinking would ideally include aspects of motivational dispositions. Identified dispositions are open-mindedness, ...

What happens when you ask whether AI dulls critical thinking skills? When I asked a large language model, the tool got a bit defensive, responding that AI can reduce or strengthen critical thinking, ...

Social media is where teenagers spend most of their time, either scrolling and sharing, or sometimes falling into the traps ...

Critical thinking springs from the notion of reflective thought proposed by Dewey (1933), who borrowed from the work of philosophers such as William James and Charles Peirce. Reflective thought was ...

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 ...

In a series of experiments described in Science Magazine in 2011, a trio of researchers found evidence to support a sneaking suspicion bubbling up in the minds of many Google aficionados: Frequent ...