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Systems for Integrated Learning Technologies

Human learning should evolve alongside technologywithout losing what makes it human.

SILT studies how technology can strengthen learning, cognitive health, wellbeing, and behavioural health across the lifespan.

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The Death of Socrates · Jacques-Louis David, 1787 · Public domain

The question beneath the technology

How do we ensure human learning evolutionnot just model performance, in an AI-embedded world?

Personal feedback

Support shaped by evidence of understanding.

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Human oversight

Teachers remain inside consequential decisions.

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Cognitive effort

AI asks, prompts, and pauses before it answers.

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Responsible memory

Context with purpose, boundaries, and control.

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Health & wellbeing

Cognitive and behavioural health across lifelong learning.

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Research moves through practice

Hypothesis.
Build. Observe. Calibrate.

An engraving of Gutenberg and others examining a printed proof
Tools change. The work of understanding continues.Gutenberg taking the first proof · Johnson, Fry & Co., 1869 · Public domain
  1. 01Questions
  2. 02Boundaries
  3. 03Systems
  4. 04Practice
  5. 05Refinement

We design technical boundaries, place them within verified software frameworks, and use system telemetry to refine the architecture around human learning.

Inside SILT Labs ↗

Human capacity is the boundary

AI should know
when to step back.

Protect confidence.

Preserve productive effort.

Keep educators in the loop.

Remember only with purpose.

Learner support↓Feedback↓Evidence↓Educator insight↓Human judgment

A learning system should leave the learner more capable, not more dependent.

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The people behind the inquiry

Different disciplines.
One responsibility.

Education, research, engineering, and adolescent development meet around the learner.

Meet our team and advisers ↗
Esther Bawo TsotsoAdaptive learning systems

Esther Bawo Tsotso

Adebayo Chike O.Human-centered research

Adebayo Chike O.

E.U. EniangAI systems, evaluation & governance

E.U. Eniang

Research. Practice. Human possibility.

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The next chapter
needs human insight.

Bring a classroom perspective, a research question, or an idea for collaboration.

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SILT Institute

Systems for Integrated Learning Technologies

An interdisciplinary research team in learning science and engineering.