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  • ChatGPT and the ‘Lure of Efficiency’ That Robs Students

    ChatGPT and the ‘Lure of Efficiency’ That Robs Students

    When the company OpenAI launched its new artificial intelligence program, ChatGPT, in late 2022, educators began to worry. ChatGPT could generate text that seemed like a human wrote it. How could teachers detect whether students were using language generated by an AI chatbot to cheat on a writing assignment? As a linguist who studies the…


  • I’m Ana Humphrey, Exoplanet Researcher, And This Is How I Work

    I’m Ana Humphrey, Exoplanet Researcher, And This Is How I Work

    This is our first “How I Work” with a student—and what a student. Ana Humphrey was this year’s winner of the Regeneron Science Talent Search, the nation’s oldest and most prestigious science and maths competition for high school seniors. She was awarded the $354,555 top prize for developing a mathematical model “to find the existence…


  • What To Ask Kids Instead Of ‘Do You Have Any Questions?’ 

    What To Ask Kids Instead Of ‘Do You Have Any Questions?’ 

    When kids are between two and four, they’re bubbling with questions — preschool children ask their parents an average of 100 questions a day. (My daughter seems to ask this many on the drive to school — How do the cars stay in the lines? Who makes the lights change colours? Why don’t they make…