The White House

For Securing the Supply of Critical Minerals and Rare Earths through Mining and Processing

Whereas, the United States of America (the “United States” or “U.S.”) and Japan (together, the “Participants”) intend to support the supply of raw and processed critical minerals and rare earths ...
Education Week

Teachers Worry AI Will Impede Students’ Critical Thinking Skills. Many Teens Aren’t So Sure

An overwhelming percentage of educators fear students’ increasing reliance on generative artificial intelligence tools to complete assignments will hinder their critical thinking skills and make them ...
The White House

For Securing of Supply in the Mining and Processing of Critical Minerals and Rare Earths

Whereas, the United States of America (the “United States” or “U.S.”) and the Commonwealth of Australia (“Australia”, and together, the “Participants”) intend to support the supply of raw and ...
Cfr.org

China, the United States, and a Critical Chokepoint on Minerals

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. Sign up to receive CFR President Mike Froman’s analysis on the most important foreign policy story of the week, delivered to your inbox ...
Rolling Stone

Why Fascists Hate Critical Thinking

Under the current Trump administration, at both the state and federal level, far-right forces and wannabe dictators are smearing teachers, slashing public school funding, banning books, outlawing ...
Fast Company

This college major could improve your critical thinking skills

AI makes it easier than ever to lean on technology to do our thinking and some research says it may even be making us dumber. However, researchers have found that studying philosophy may help sharpen ...
Inside Higher Ed

Teaching and Learning Critical and Creative Thinking

As we enter the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the emphasis in higher learning is less on in-depth discipline knowledge and more on agile skills in critical thinking and creative thinking. How can we ...
New York Post

Educators warn that AI shortcuts are already making kids lazy: ‘Critical thinking and attention spans have been demolished’

A new MIT study suggests that AI is degrading critical thinking skills — which does not surprise educators one bit. “Brain atrophy does occur, and it’s obvious,” Dr. Susan Schneider, founding director ...
Phys.org

Using ChatGPT to write essays may be eroding critical thinking skills

A team of neurologists and AI specialists at MIT's Media Lab has led a study looking into the brain impacts of large language model (LLM) use among people who engage with them for study or work. They ...
The New York Times

A.I. Will Destroy Critical Thinking in K-12

A few weeks ago, my ears perked up when a gaggle of middle school volleyball players in my car were talking about the teachers they don’t like; I have an unfortunate appetite for tweenage gossip, and ...