3X Education Framework
Educating for Agency
Exploration
Structured Freedom
- Learners ask questions and generate hypotheses.
- AI acts as a co-learner, providing responsive explanation and adaptive questioning.
- Teachers establish conceptual orientation and ethical boundaries.
Experience
Connecting the Dots
- Anchoring concepts to prior interests and known schemas.
- Using analogies to map relationships from familiar domains.
- 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.
- Confidence and curiosity compound as learners create.
Implementing 3X
The 3X Standards
The 3X Framework applies rigorous standards at every level of the institution to ensure agency is cultivated consistently.
Exploration
1.1.aCollaboration
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.
1.1.bIntentionality
Students set achievable and relatable goals for their learning. Centered by teacher-established milestones, students aim to reach these milestones along a personally meaningful path.
1.1.cResponsibility
Though students are encouraged to take a partial lead over their own learning, they must be able to do so within a predefined range of time and resources.
1.1.dTransparency
Students explicitly document their AI interactions (logs/citations) to demonstrate the path of their inquiry, distinguishing between machine generation and human reasoning.
Experience
1.2.aPersonal Relation
Students use AI to relate their class content to their personal context. This can take the form of AI-generated analogies, real-world examples, or simply a wider range of perspectives.
1.2.bIntegrity
Students verify their understanding against an accepted ground truth established by the institutional curriculum or by an academically verified source.
Excitement
1.3.aAuthentic Value
Within the bounds of the course material, students engage in projects and learning that they feel is valuable to them or their community by relating it to their sense of value.
1.3.bEffort
Students build on their values by contributing cognitive and creative effort towards their learning and projects.
1.3.cOwnership
Even with authentic value-driven intention, the student must respect academic honesty principles, ensuring that work is properly attributed and new works are original.
Theory of Change
Maximizing Learner Agency
Exploration
Inputs
- Conceptual Frameworks
- Course Maps
- AI Tools
- AI Guidelines
Outputs
- Inquiry logs
- Demonstrated Understanding
- Classroom Discussion
Outcomes
- Student Agency
- Student Innovation
- Diversified Perspective
- AI Literacy
Experience
Inputs
- AI Tools
- Local Context
- Personal Context
- Student Interest Charts
Outputs
- Relevant Analogies
- Personalized Assignments
- Personalized Explanations
Outcomes
- Conceptual Understanding
- Information Retention
- Real-World Application
- Self-Generated Values
Excitement
Inputs
- Student-Determined Goals
- Project Prompts
- Gamified Learning
Outputs
- Collaborative Demonstrations
- Real-world Solutions
- Competitive Engagement
Outcomes
- Student Attention
- Student Motivation
- Peer Collaboration
- Student Confidence
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