GenAI tools are increasingly used in academic settings, yet little is known about how they affect higher-order thinking during critical reading and writing revision. A new study has found that postgraduate students selectively engage with GenAI when revising critical reading reports, focusing intensely on specific analytical dimensions. This strategic engagement is shaped by academic goals, supervisor demands, career aspirations, and misunderstandings of content.

This scoping review identifies the first wave of randomized controlled trials testing large language models in digestive diseases. Four published and ten ongoing trials suggest that AI tools such as ChatGPT are increasingly used for clinical decision-making and patient education, but robust, international evidence based on real patient outcomes is still urgently needed.

Cognitively activating teaching practice, as a strategy that can promote students' critical thinking, problem-solving, and in-depth learning, is considered to have potential relevance for teachers’ professional collaboration. A new international study led by Dr. Mehmet Şükrü Bellibaş provides compelling evidence that teachers who collaborate professionally are significantly more likely to use cognitively activating teaching practices. The study also reveals that the positive effects of collaboration are even stronger in schools with high collective innovativeness.