Ideas & tools

A question.
A way forward.

Approaches you can read, examine, teach, and put to work. Start with the question that matters to you.

Make sense of AI answers.

Start with the answer, the evidence, and the thinking you bring to the interaction.

Reading an answer

CARE

A practical approach for examining and improving an AI answer.

Published approachExplore CARE

Develop practical capability.

Make prompting, context, and AI literacy easier to discuss and teach.

Prompting

CLEAR

Five principles for writing, testing, and improving prompts.

Published 2023Explore CLEAR

Context engineering

PASTAS

Six considerations for the conditions under which an AI agent works.

Published 2026Explore PASTAS

Learning & development

Universal AI Literacy Framework

Five components, with four progressive levels within each component.

2025 preprintExplore the framework

Research & teaching

From studies to practice

National surveys, professional learning programs, and teaching about AI delegation.

Published studies & current projectsExplore the work

Act at an institutional scale.

Connect individual capability with organizational learning and the stewardship of knowledge.

Organizational learning

Anchored Adaptation

A method for acting, learning, and deciding while technology and evidence continue to change.

Method & practice resourcesExplore the method

Knowledge governance

Collections, evidence & AI

Institutional work on provenance, conditions for AI use, and shared practice.

UVA & collective initiativesExplore the initiatives