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Agency through Education
The Value
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Education is Agency. It is the ability to define who you are, who you will become, and what you will create. Our mission is to maximize learner agency at the individual, community, and institutional level
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Educating for Agency
3X Education Framework
Our evidence-based framework anchors instruction in three interconnected phases: Exploration, Experience, and Excitement. This approach maximizes learner agency by combining structured freedom, personal connection, and authentic motivation.
Exploration
Structured Freedom
Learners ask questions and generate hypotheses. AI acts as a co-learner, providing responsive explanation and adaptive questioning.
Experience
Connecting the Dots
Anchoring concepts to prior interests and known schemas. AI helps translate ideas into terms the learner understands.
Excitement
Fueling the Drive
Motivation drives depth through projects and games. Public showcases and peer feedback build identity and confidence.
The 3X Standards
Students
Exploration
- 1.1.aCollaboration
- 1.1.bIntentionality
- 1.1.cResponsibility
- 1.1.dTransparency
Experience
- 1.2.aPersonal Relation
- 1.2.bIntegrity
Excitement
- 1.3.aAuthentic Value
- 1.3.bEffort
- 1.3.cOwnership
Collaboration
Driven by their curiosity, students inquire and engage in debate rather than seeking specific answers to predefined questions. In this way, AI acts as an intellectual partner and not an intellectual replacement.
Educators
Exploration
- 2.1.aCreative Exemplar
- 2.1.bStructured Freedom
- 2.1.cOversight
Experience
- 2.2.aExpertise
- 2.2.bDifferentiation
Excitement
- 2.3.aHuman Connection
- 2.3.bFormative Feedback
- 2.3.cProcess Valuation
Creative Exemplar
Teachers design creative and engaging classroom activities guided by their curiosity. In this way, they create an environment where the students feel emboldened to carry the same spirit into their own work.
Institutions
Exploration
- 3.1.aEquitable Access
- 3.1.bTool Governance
- 3.1.cData Minimization
Experience
- 3.2.aLocal Context
Excitement
- 3.3.aTeacher Agency
- 3.3.bExperimentation
- 3.3.cEnablement
Equitable Access
Institutions must ensure that hardware and AI tools required are accessible to all students, mitigating digital divides that could stratify agency based on socioeconomic status. This may require students to work in groups to share equipment.
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