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When Jocelyn Leitzinger had her university students write about times in their lives they had witnessed discrimination, she ...

New research from MIT's Media Lab suggests that frequent use of artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT could impair critical thinking skills.

The term "design thinking," once ubiquitous in corporate America, is disappearing from job listings, a recent "Fast Company" analysis shows.

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The preprint study, which has not been peer-reviewed, was shared widely online and clearly struck a chord with some frustrated educators.

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