For students
Keep the learning yours.
Decide when AI can expand your thinking and when it would do the learning for you. Verify the output, document the process, and submit work you understand.
Open the student guideThe RAFT Framework for Ethical AI Use
Use AI to strengthen learning—not shortcut it.
RAFT is a practical, learning-first process that helps students use AI with judgment, verify what it produces, and create work they can genuinely explain and defend.
The one questionAm I enhancing my learning—or bypassing it?
Research · Augment · Fact-check · Transform
A common language
Policy tells people what is allowed. RAFT teaches them how to act.
RAFT turns broad principles—human agency, accountability, transparency, and critical judgment—into four actions a learner can remember while doing real work.
For faculty
Make responsible use teachable.
Connect AI boundaries to learning outcomes, give students concrete examples, and make the process visible without turning every assignment into surveillance.
Explore the faculty toolkitFor institutions
Move from policy to practice.
Build shared expectations across classrooms through workshops, design studios, student learning experiences, and a supported implementation pathway.
View institutional servicesFour actions, one learning process
The RAFT framework
AI enters after your thinking has begun. It helps you explore, but you remain responsible for the evidence, decisions, and final work.
R
Research Independently First
Gather credible sources and form your own initial understanding before AI enters the process.
A
Augment Your Work
Use AI to surface gaps, counterarguments, questions, and connections—not to produce the finished answer.
F
Fact-Check Everything
Verify every claim, citation, quotation, and calculation against trustworthy original sources.
T
Transform Into Your Own Work
Build the final product through your own reasoning, structure, evidence, examples, and voice.
Before you RAFT
Know the goal before you use the tool.
The original framework began with “Clarify.” That useful idea is now a short preflight so the public framework stays memorable.
- 01What am I expected to learn or demonstrate?
- 02What AI use does this course or assignment allow?
- 03What have I already tried or concluded on my own?
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For colleges and universities
Give your campus a shared way to talk about AI and learning.
RAFT engagements range from a focused keynote to a cross-campus implementation cohort, with concrete materials and outcomes at every level.
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