An AI model launched last week appears to have shipped with an unexpected occasional behavior: checking what its owner thinks ...

Explicit instruction is a deliberate progression of modeling, guided practice, and independent practice of a skill or a concept.

Over the last few years a new way of teaching has emerged in Australian classrooms, yet many of the techniques sound old.  It ...

Students at 290 Melbourne schools will be expected to meet higher standards of respect and behaviour under a new regime based on the principles of explicit instruction.

In what appears to be a first, the state Department of Public Instruction is endorsing "explicit phonics instruction" as a critical component in teaching children to read. And the department said ...

An artificial intelligence safety firm has found that OpenAI's o3 and o4-mini models sometimes refuse to shut down, and will sabotage computer scripts in order to keep working on tasks.

Explicit instruction involves teachers explaining what students are learning, how to do it and why it is important. Dimitry Pistrov/ Shutterstock Is it really one or the other?

Artificial intelligence models created by OpenAI ignored explicit instructions to shut down, researchers have claimed, sparking new concerns about the technology. Researchers from Palisade ...

Explicit instruction on thinking strategies, such as using 10 as a reference point for easy mental calculations. Well-structured retrieval practice in which children recall arithmetic combinations ...