Most people know how to use computers, but far fewer know how they work and even fewer are capable of writing the coded instructions that form the basis of every program, website and application.

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. For decades, a ...

Usually, I write drafts on a computer because I type faster than I write, and because I can name the document, file it on my computer, and find it afterward. But in class, when I give a freewrite ...

It can take years to learn how to write computer code well. SourceAI, a Paris startup, thinks programming shouldn’t be such a big deal. The company is fine-tuning a tool that uses artificial ...

Using AI to write an article. Increasingly, computers are used to write original text, and when it comes to describing current and newsworthy events, it can sometimes be hard to tell the difference ...

For the first time ever a team of researchers says it has deployed a brain-computer interface (or BCI) to decode the neural signals that represent the writing of letters and turn them into text. A ...

None of this turned out how it was supposed to. Here I am, a human, writing a story that was assigned to a machine. If I’d published what the computer came up with, you’d be reading something like: ...

As a writer, I can't remember the last time I sat down at my computer, opened a fresh new document and worked on it until I was done. I typically have an idea for a story, sit down and... check my ...

Writing is taught as both an art and a science. As we go higher in the grades, student writing becomes longer and genres broaden. Teacher loads get higher as well. A high school English teacher could ...

For decades, a stubborn truth has dogged efforts to create automated writing assessment tools, aka roboreaders: Computers are stupid. True, their digital brains can process torrents of data in ...