What Can Artificial Intelligence Teach Us About Human…

When The Terminator and RoboCop hit theaters in the 1980s, Hollywood imagined artificial intelligence (AI) as an existential threat—machines that would dominate, surveil, and destroy us. Four decades later, AI’s takeover looks far more intimate. Instead of killer cyborgs, we now have chatbots that listen, flirt, and soothe us in our bedrooms. Millions of users […]

How to Teach Students to Embrace Wonder

Heidi Lawrence’s path to awe started more than a decade ago when she began working on ideas for her Ph.D. in English literature. Exploring Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time and other adolescent novels, she began noticing patterns of connection between the characters’ inner worlds and their relationships with nature—specifically, the ways characters’ emotional worlds […]

How to Teach Mindfulness in a More Social Way

Social disconnection, isolation, and stress are key contributors to the loneliness epidemic and Mental health crisis impacting young people on college campuses today. These issues affect people of all generations in the United States and across the globe. 
 Feeling connected and accepted by others is a fundamental human need. In education, belonging and connection […]