When Dustin Hansen, a video game designer-turned-author, speaks to third graders — the target audience for most of his work — the question they always ask is, “Where do you get your ideas?” It’s ...

Neural networks have become shockingly good at generating natural-sounding text, on almost any subject. If I were a student, I’d be thrilled—let a chatbot write that five-page paper on Hamlet’s ...

Homework hasn’t changed much in the past few decades. Most children are still sent home with about an hour’s worth of homework each day, mostly practising what they were taught in class. If we look ...

The word homework doesn’t just elicit groans from students. Many veteran educators aren’t fans of it either. Barbara Tollison, a high school English teacher with nearly four decades in the classroom, ...

School assignments that a student is expected to do outside of the regular school day—that’s homework. The general guideline is 10 minutes of nightly homework per grade level beginning after ...