Triangle Learning Community

We sit at the intersection of the student, the teacher, and artificial intelligence—forging a new future of learning

Triangle Learning Community will conduct research to explore how Artificial Intelligence and other technologies can be effectively integrated into the classroom, providing personalized learning opportunities, empowering and supporting teachers and students, and fostering cultural diversity and lifelong learning. Triangle Learning Community (TLC) will first work with pre-K students and then move up the grade.

 

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a hot topic, but much of what we’ve seen so far in education focuses on tasks we already know how to do. AI is being used to generate content—schools already have an extensive curriculum in place.  It’s also being employed to check students’ answers, provide alternative problems when they make mistakes, or move them back a grade level for review. However, do we really need AI for more drill-and-practice exercises?

 

The real challenge in education is providing personalized attention to students. In classrooms with one teacher for many students, personal time is limited. Imagine if AI could truly understand each student—their work, their interests, and their challenges. What if it could help them tackle complex problems, like word problems in math or reading comprehension in English Language Arts? Imagine an AI that doesn’t just check answers but analyzes a student’s thought process, identifying where their reasoning went off track.

 

Triangle Learning Community’s vision is a world in which students and teachers collaborate with digital AI-powered tools that are knowledgeable, trustworthy companions, supporting learners along their journey in meaningful ways.

  • Students will work with an AI-powered Companion that knows the student. It has memory—the history of all the student’s interactions—but, more importantly, it brings the relevant experience to bear at the right time.
  • Because it knows the student’s actual work, it can provide constructive feedback based on what the student needs, not on what a trillion parameters of training data suggest is the best fit.
  • The AI Companion asks appropriate questions. It knows when to zoom in or out, sometimes reflecting simply on where a student started or got stuck and other times honing in on a particular procedure. Because it digests and interprets a student’s work, it is a knowledgeable guide.
  • The AI Companion builds on success, using what a student knows to effectively scaffold a deeper level of understanding in areas that are not as secure.
  • It offers choice, suggesting tasks aligned to a student’s interest, all the while ensuring that those choices are coherent in supporting the learning journey.
  • And, finally, it knows that it is not human. While it can support students working independently of a teacher or peers, it also knows that learning is most powerful when it occurs among living, breathing humans.

Is that possible? At the heart of Triangle Learning Community is a research mindset. TLC will continually probe key questions related to the application of AI to the processes of student learning as well as teaching. TLC will create value through an ongoing process of bench research which is designed to capture a wealth of learning science and teacher input, through to rapid prototyping with feedback, resulting in the scaling of those products that promise the most impact.