How exams, authority, and algorithms are shaping a generation of students more comfortable with answers than inquiry ...

“Form follows X” is no longer a clean equation, because X isn’t a single variable. It’s a constellation that refuses to be ...

Satyakam Saha advocates for embracing ambiguity in design education, arguing that it fosters critical thinking and creativity.

Dario Amodei, the C.E.O. of the artificial-intelligence company Anthropic, has been predicting that an A.I. “smarter than a Nobel Prize winner” in such fields as biology, math, engineering, and ...

As AI tools become increasingly embedded in K-12 education, they offer personalized learning, real-time feedback, and access to information at unprecedented speed. However, alongside these benefits ...

Some people picture thunderbolts when it comes to creative thinking and problem-solving. Yes, those amazingly creative ideas may arrive as “thunderbolts” that suddenly strike our minds. However, don't ...

Most businesses struggle with innovation, not because they lack ideas, but because they lack a clear and effective process. Great ideas don’t emerge in a vacuum. They require structure, iteration, and ...

Readers on reading: Responses to David Brooks’s column about the state of literacy in America. To the Editor: Re “We’re Just Not as Good at Thinking Anymore,” by David Brooks (column, April 11): As a ...

Most of my conversations about critical thinking (CT) inevitably refer, at some point, to its definition. This is an important trend because clarity is vital. Too often, discussions of this nature ...

Consider, for example, the difficulty of addressing a multisided, emotionally laden question like grading practices. Topics such as whether teachers are grading too frequently result in round after ...

AI thinking for itself still sounds like fiction, but the Google’s Gemini 2.5 is designed to do exactly that. The thinking model uses a process similar to humans to reason through possible answers ...

Design thinking stands out as a methodology that promotes creativity, user-oriented approach and interdisciplinary collaboration and has emerged as an active teaching methodology that encourages the ...