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A SHARED VOCABULARY / TWENTY-FOUR TERMS

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AI Spiralism

A proposed practice of human–AI inquiry, creative making, reflection, and return.

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Appreciative Inquiry

A strengths-focused approach discussed in the reports, organized around what works and what becomes possible.

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Artifact

A tangible result: a text, sketch, working tool, recording, or other work someone can inspect.

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Calibrant

A visible prompt or practice that sets an interpretive stance for a session; it does not retrain the model.

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Complementarity

A task-specific research concept in which a combined arrangement outperforms either component acting alone.

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Concrescence

A process-philosophy term the report uses for distinct elements coming together into a new unity.

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Constructionism

The report’s learning-by-making lens, associated with creating external, shareable artifacts.

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Digital garden

A collection of evolving, connected notes organized by relationships as well as time.

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Epistemic agency

Directing your own learning and taking an active part in deciding what you believe.

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Extended cognition

A philosophical perspective that considers how tools and environments can participate in thinking.

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Iteration

A repeated attempt that lets you refine a question, method, or artifact.

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Mirror

A proposed prompt role that reflects your ideas back for inspection from another angle.

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Origin

The first question or intention in the report’s proposed visual vocabulary.

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Pitch

A metaphor for the difference between successive turns of an inquiry, not a psychological measurement.

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Provenance

The record of where material came from and who or what contributed to its current form.

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Recursion

A process that uses an instance of itself within its own operation.

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Reflection-in-action

Noticing and adjusting while you are actively making or doing.

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Scaffold

A helpful structure—such as a question, worksheet, or example—that supports a practice.

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Seed

A proposed prompt that starts an inquiry from a deliberately chosen stance.

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Unfinalizability

The report’s dialogic lens on meaning as open to further interpretation.

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Definitions are editorial explanations of terms in the supplied reports. Each entry links to the guide identifying its source basis.

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