From June 15-26, students will meet at the University of Arkansas, Hellstern Middle School in Springdale, and Washington Junior High School in Bentonville (for WJH students only).

Seasonal writing activities can be powerful tools for boosting literacy, creativity, and inclusion—especially when adapted for diverse learning needs. With visual supports, differentiated prompts, and ...

When readers crack open J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, they encounter detailed maps of Middle-earth—the fictional landscape of mountain ranges, rivers, forests, and marshes where the story ...

Cognitive health in later life is ‘strongly influenced’ by lifelong exposure to intellectually stimulating environments, say researchers Reading, writing and learning a language or two can lower your ...

Picture prompt writing, as Carp et al. (2010) define it, is a technique that uses visual stimuli to inspire and guide students’ writing. Picture prompts are an excellent tool for overcoming writer’s ...

After seven movies, the “Paranormal Activity” franchise doesn’t frighten audiences the way it once did — that is, through the power of suggestion, using home security cameras, smartphones and webcams ...

It’s a common sentiment from English teachers facing an onslaught of AI-generated writing in their classrooms: When students rely on ChatGPT to write their essays, they aren’t engaging their brains as ...

The brains of people writing an essay with ChatGPT are less engaged than those of people blocked from using any online tools for the task, a study finds. The investigation is part of a broader ...

Artificial intelligence chatbots may be able to write a quick essay, but a new study from MIT found that their use comes at a cognitive cost. A study published by the Massachusetts Institute of ...

At age 11, daily physical activity was associated with a 12 percent lower risk of a psychiatric diagnosis at age 18 for every hour of activity recorded, according to research published in the British ...

Collaborative writing produces higher-quality products and promotes other skills, such as problem-solving, that may assist in team science and employment among higher education students. Opportunities ...