It’s easy to get swept up in the hype about artificial intelligence tutors. But the evidence so far suggests caution. Some studies have found that chatbot tutors can backfire because students lean on ...

Every student suffers from “Swiss-cheese gaps” in their knowledge, Sal Khan, the founder of Khan Academy and an evangelist for how tech and tutoring can enhance learning, once told me. Yet finding and ...

UChicago scientists team up with Chicago Public Schools to test if robots need fictional personalities to teach effectively ...

Mathematical understanding should be a goal for every student and something they feel capable of achieving. But translating ...

Funded by a three-year, $300,000 National Science Foundation grant, Associate Professor of Instructional Technology Dabae Lee ...

We engineer friction out of everything. But some of that friction is what turns information into skill and experience into ...

The human suffering resulting from childhood adversities is profound and poorly recognized. Michael Menard’s new book offers ...

A study suggests the first of seven key pyramids in Egypt, the Step Pyramid of Djoser, was built using a hydraulic lift. Dated to about 4,500 years ago, this would move up the introduction of major ...