Education is on the verge of becoming fully automated.

The Internal Revenue Service is quietly unleashing chatbots and other artificial intelligence tools on tax returns this ...

My daughter came to me last Tuesday night with her math homework, and I froze. She's in seventh grade. The worksheet had something about solving two-step equations with variables on both sides, and ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

Educators on social media appear deeply divided over the utility of homework. Many question whether the assignments still serve a clear academic purpose in a post-pandemic landscape, while others ...

Math jokes are the topic of our blog post today! We’ve all been there, staring down a complex equation, scratching our heads over a tricky word problem, or just slogging through the academic ritual ...

DeltaMath is this cool math tool that’s been making waves in classrooms worldwide since 2009. It all started with Zach Korzyk, a math teacher who probably got tired of grading endless stacks of ...

Creating tasks with a focus on students’ autonomy—by providing choices, for example—helps them see the relevance of homework. But regardless of the varying opinions about homework, many educators are ...

Shel Silverstein’s Homework Machine was one of my kids’ favorite poems of his when they were little. First published in 1981, the short poem turned out to be rather prescient about AI, especially the ...

One morning during school drop-off, a parent waved me over. Her seventh-grade son had always done well in math, so she was puzzled—and more than a little frustrated—that he was struggling with ...

ChatGPT simplifies complex concepts, making learning more engaging, interactive, and easier to understand for students. It provides personalized homework help, summaries, problem-solving guidance, and ...

ChatGPT is transforming how children approach schoolwork, acting as a patient study partner when used wisely. Specific prompts encourage understanding by focusing on the learning process rather than ...