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How can we teach students to evaluate pseudoscience and sketchy assertions? Explore resources to improve critical thinking.

Discover Code.org’s Computer Science Fundamentals curriculum for elementary students. Teach foundational coding skills through fun, interactive lessons and hands-on activities.

We need to reckon with what ChatGPT is doing to the classroom and to human expression.

The National Gallery of Art is debuting an online collection including 16,000 newly-accessible images.

A New Lens on Higher Education

What the Nobel Laureate taught us about clarity, courage, and cutting what doesn’t matter.

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The rest of the world uses the word differently than we Ed Folk do.

If we want students to take control of their learning, we first need to implement mechanistic metacognition so that they understand how best to learn, argues Jared Cooney Horvath

Handwriting activates key brain regions for memory and learning, suggesting educational systems should integrate traditional and digital methods effectively.

4. Handwriting improves thinking. (Yours, too.)

Which states are the most and least literate? This interesting map shows adult literacy rates for every U.S. state.

One professor's reflections on the end of an era, as AI tools such as ChatGPT have murdered the student essay (RIP). Here's why that threatens the future of human cognition—and how to save ourselves.

Online mathematics programs may benefit most the kids who need it least

A new metanalysis adds to the growing evidence base showing that reading on screens is worse for comprehension.

Manuskript. Most people don't know it. It's software for writers. Software with lots of options, while being a lot simpler than Scrivener. I know loads of authors live inside Scrivener, and hooray for them, but it's too much, big, complex, confusing for me. Read about Manuskript etc at their homepage. There are screenshots and a list of features. This post, and perhaps another one, will go into how I use it, to give you an idea. Note: Manuskript is Free…

Discover how ancient Stoic techniques can enhance your writing focus. Learn practical tips for a distraction-free writing experience in today's busy world.

This guide aims to provide you with a step-by-step approach to help you bring your ideas to life and complete your very own book.

Writing novels requires a lot of work, but tools like Manuskript might potentially be able to help.

Are your sentences overly long and confusing? In this post, we write about six ways to shorten your sentences and improve your writing.

As we pointed out back in 2017, Cormac McCarthy, author of such gritty, blood-drenched novels as Blood Meridian, Child of God, The Road, and No Country for Old Men, prefers the company of scientists to fellow writers.

Make your STEM projects more than maker-based activities. PBL them to heighten classroom discussion and multiply student learning.

Help students master complex math and science topics by mashing Open Educational Resources (OER) simulations with assessment.

One of our favorite testimonials on our website is from a tenth grade student: “The Four Question Method makes history more clear and helps me think.” That’s exactly the point of the whole project. Our big insight is that there are really only four questions that students can ask and answer in social studies, and... Read more »

Straub was 79. He was known for his supernatural themes, including Ghost Story, The Hellfire Club and, in collaboration with Stephen King, The Talisman.

There are people who can quickly memorize lists of thousands of numbers, the order of all the cards in a deck (or ten!), and much more. Science writer Joshua Foer describes the technique -- called the memory palace -- and shows off its most remarkable feature: anyone can learn how to use it, including him.