Teaching critical thinking may help teens resist fake news, AI slop and online harm

Social media is where teenagers spend most of their time, either scrolling and sharing, or sometimes falling into the traps ...
Business Insider

KPMG US is piloting a new intern program focused less on technical skills and more on critical thinking

KPMG US is shifting intern training to focus on AI-era skills like judgment and problem-solving. Interns at its Lakehouse facility will engage in critical-thinking exercises and team competitions. The ...
The Guardian

‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI

As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities – and society at large Lea Pao, a professor of literature at Stanford University, has been experimenting ...
Frontiers

Classroom observation as reflective practice: a pre-service TESOL teacher’s professional development

A reflective practice is crucial for pre-service TESOL teachers’ initial training and ongoing professional development. This paper reports on classroom observation as the reflective practice in ...
The Conversation

Africa’s critical minerals are a huge economic opportunity: G20 framework sets out ways to seize it

Women washing ore in the artisanal copper-cobalt mine of Kamilombe in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Emmet Livingstone/AFP/Getty Images As the world shifts to clean energy, minerals such as lithium ...
PC Gamer

There's more to Horses than the Steam ban: The controversial horror game is a great example of how games can effectively borrow from film, and how they can also stumble

After playing Horses, I found it fascinating, but it didn't take its juxtaposition of mundane chores and extreme violence far enough. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...
Microsoft

Tools for Thought

Many AI tools focus on solving specific tasks like content generation or process automation. Though useful and powerful, these systems may affect how we think, learn, build skills, and develop ...
C&EN

Microplastics and Soil Greenhouse Gas Emissions: A Critical Reflection on Meta-Analyses

Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Biotransformation on Organic Solid Waste, School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China Shanghai ...
IEEE

Open Set Cross-Domain Hyperspectral Image Classification Based on Critical Reflective Learning Network

Abstract: Limited by the lack of supervisory information of unknown classes, the existing open set cross-domain hyperspectral image (HSI) classification methods often rely on threshold-based methods ...
CSOonline

Critical flaw in AI agent dev tool Langflow under active exploitation

Researchers from security firm Trend Micro warn that a critical remote code execution vulnerability patched in April in the Langflow AI agent framework is being exploited to deploy botnet malware. The ...
International Union for Conservation of Nature

(Eco)feminist Economics and Biodiversity Finance: A Critical Reflection

Amelia Arreguín Prado provides a critical analysis of biodiversity finance from an ecofeminist perspective, spotlighting the inadequacies of current market-based conservation strategies. Arreguín ...