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ChatGPT "Improves" Critical Thinking in Kids...But Not Really

📍 📍 📍 think. This study found some evidence for enhancing critical thinking through the use of ChatGBT. The researchers followed 25 students as they wrote essays with the assistance of ChatGPT. Afterwards, students reported gains in critical thinking, system thinking, and strategic competence. That sounds great, right? Well, the devil is in the details. Toward the end of the report, the…

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Free Your Brain from ChatGPT "Thinking"

If you you’re someone who values being able think independently, then you should be troubled by the fact that your brain’s operates all too much like ChatGPT. I’m going to explain how that undermines your ability to think for yourself, but I’ll also give you a key way to change it. How ChatGPT “Thinks” Let’s first understand how ChatGPT “thinks.” ChatGPT is one of several Artificial Intelligences…

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Is Higher Ed to Collapse from A.I.?

Steve Pearlman: Today on actual intelligence, we have a very important and timely discussion with Dr. Robert Neber of a SU, whose recent opinion piece in inside higher education is titled AI and Higher Ed, and an impending collapse. Robert is a teaching professor and honors faculty fellow at the Barrett Honors College at a SU. And the reason that I invited him to speak with us today on actual…

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Get Recognized for Thinking Outside the Box

How does your brain tackle a new problem? Believe it or not, it tackles new problems by using old frameworks it created for similar problems you faced before. But if your brain is wired to use old frameworks for new problems, then isn’t that a problem? It is. And that’s why most people never think outside the box. So, how do you get your brain to think innovatively? Divergently? And outside the…

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Did the APA just end critical thinking in colleges?

Thanks for reading Actual Intelligence with Dr. Steve Pearlman! Subscribe FREE to receive new posts and support my work. APA to Students: Don't Bother to Think for Yourselves Anymore. Let AI Do It. If in the future you want a psychologist who can actually think about psychology, or a doctor who can actually think about medicine, or a teacher who can think about what their teaching, or a lawyer who…

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Kids Want Off Their Phones. Here's How!

Thanks for reading Actual Intelligence with Dr. Steve Pearlman! This post is public so feel free to share it. Thanks for reading Actual Intelligence with Dr. Steve Pearlman! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Want Your Kids Off Their Phones: They Just Told Us How to Do It In a new Harris poll conducted with The Atlantic , kids have reminded us about the importance…

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Is ChatGPT Dumbing Down your Kid? New MIT Study Says, “Yes.”

Is ChatGPT dumbing down your kid? It is and here’s what you can do. A new MIT study reveals the powerful consequences of artificial intelligence on actual intelligence, and guess what? Simply (and terrifyingly) put, the use of artificial intelligence undermines your child’s actual intelligence. In short, when children don’t think for themselves, they don’t learn to think for themselves. That…

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Is ChatGPT Dumbing Down your Kid? A New MIT Study Says, “Yes.”

We finally have emerging research on Artificial Intelligence's consequences for actual intelligence . If you're an educator or parent--or if you're anyone who just thinks that thinking is important--then you need to learn about this study. It offers hard evidence that our young people are in danger of diminished thinking skills for life. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this…

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QUICK TIP: Unlocking Divergent Thinking--The Physical Connection

Stuck in a mental rut? Need a way to break out of your current thought patterns? Want to unlock and unleash your creative, divergent, disruptive thinking skills? Who doesn't? Listen to learn how! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit pearlmanactualintelligence.substack.com

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Headagogy Update!

More Headagogy coming soon! Also, check out The Critical Thinking Institute pdocast, with me!!! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit pearlmanactualintelligence.substack.com

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