Staff in KidsSpace will be available to help you learn how to use Beanstack. Get ready for the Summer Reading Program by learning how to use the Beanstack website and app.

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Andy Coravos says offloading tedious tasks to AI has freed her to focus more on the things she loves, like singing and playing guitar. Andy Coravos has a new home helper—named Claude. She assigns her ...

Arlington, Va.-based Beanstack, the popular reading motivation platform used in schools and libraries, has acquired Comics Plus, a leading digital platform providing schools and libraries with ...

The St. Clair County Library System has launched a challenge for young readers, according to a community announcement. The "1000 Books Before Kindergarten" program encourages parents to read 1,000 ...

Glasgow High School is changing how it encourages students to read, using a digital platform called Beanstack to make reading more like a game. Librarian Morgan Cossell described Beanstack as a ...

A new study finds that certain patterns of AI use are driving cognitive fatigue, while others can help reduce burnout. by Julie Bedard, Matthew Kropp, Megan Hsu, Olivia T. Karaman, Jason Hawes and ...

Corrected: A previous version of this story should have said that the Pew Research Center conducted the survey. There’s fear among many educators that most students are now using AI to do too much of ...

A majority of American teenagers believe that their peers are using artificial intelligence to cheat in school, according to new research, and more than 1 in 10 teens use AI for emotional support or ...

People who interact with chatbots for emotional support or other personal reasons are likelier to report symptoms of depression or anxiety, a new study finds. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

A deck brush can be a good tool for the right task. Just ask Veronika, the Brown Swiss cow. Veronika uses both ends of a deck brush to scratch various parts of her body, researchers report January 19 ...

Far Side fans might recall a classic 1982 cartoon called “Cow Tools,” featuring a cow standing next to a jumble of strange objects—the joke being that cows don’t use tools. That’s why a pet Swiss ...