Does using AI dull your critical thinking skills?

Does using AI dull your critical thinking skills?

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon and Microsoft Research in the UK have completed a study to determine how generative AI affects critical thinking. Not surprisingly, knowledge workers that use AI feel they are less likely to be thinking critically. The researchers surveyed digital workers by explaining what critical thinking was and then asking them if they…

Could the five-paragraph essay be the reason we’ve forgotten how to think?

Could the five-paragraph essay be the reason we’ve forgotten how to think?

David Labaree published a devastating takedown of the five-paragraph essay, that pernicious container that’s corrupting the teaching of writing everywhere. He’s made me wonder about my own rules and advice for writers. In my mind, writing and thinking are two sides of the same process. Separate the two, and thinking ceases to be important, which…