Thinking with ai · 12 min
Best ways to use AI, sorted by who does the thinking
Most lists sort the best ways to use AI by where you are. Sorting by what you need to keep shows which uses build a skill and which wear it down.
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Thinking with ai
8 essays on thinking with ai.
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Thinking with ai · 12 min
GenAI is making us dumber? Only at what you skip
Trials from 2026 suggest GenAI is making us dumber only at skills we stop practicing, and ten minutes of taking its answers is enough to show it.
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Thinking with ai · 11 min
AI and critical thinking: it depends who asks the questions
Most advice on AI and critical thinking says it depends how you use it. Three 2025 studies name the variable: who ends up doing the reasoning.
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Students · 13 min
College students and AI: the use that fails on exam day
For college students AI help is now a weekly habit, mostly for coursework and checking answers. One trial shows what those two uses do on exam day.
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Students · 13 min
Cons of AI in education, ranked by the evidence
Every list gives the same seven cons of AI in education at the same volume. Five were measured in 2025, one is still a worry, and one was retracted.
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Critical thinking · 11 min
How to improve critical thinking: what works now
Habit lists do not change how you think. How to improve critical thinking the way research says it works: one real decision, on paper, with questions.
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Thinking skills · 10 min
Higher order reasoning skills: what they are, why they fade
Bloom's taxonomy tops out at analysis, evaluation, and creation: the higher order reasoning skills built through practice, not reading about them.
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Thinking with ai · 9 min
Why AI should not be used in education: the evidence
Two 2025 studies agree: why AI should not be used in education comes down to trust in the tool, not the tool itself, and that habit is learnable.
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