Compass Collaborative turns trusted research into practical guidance so you can make better decisions for learners.
Compass Collaborative is an initiative of the Harvard Graduate School of Education that convenes developmental scientists, learning researchers, educators, and the people building the technology to connect decades of research on learning and development to shape the AI reaching learners. Together, we can bring AI into learning wisely and encourage every learner to be capable and curious.
Every age meets AI differently.
The same AI tool meets a very different mind in a five-year-old, a fifteen-year-old, and a thirty-five-year-old. Guidance by Age shows where AI helps and where it gets in the way at each age and stage of development, from early childhood to adulthood.
A Certificate in AI and Human Development
Developmental by Design is a 12-week online certificate program from the Harvard Graduate School of Education for the people who build, choose, and govern AI in learning.
The AI shaping learners goes beyond the chatbot.
Not all AI announces itself. Invisible AI exists in the feeds, recommendations, and scoring systems running in the background. Here we make that invisible AI visible, so you can make sense of what exists around us before you decide what to do about it.
AI is arriving faster than any technology before it, and the evidence on its human impact is still being built. It offers real promise for some of the longest-standing challenges in education, and it delivers on that promise when it amplifies how people learn and develop.
Compass Collaborative helps you tell the difference between where AI might strengthen learning and development and where it might hinder it.
We’re a collaborative from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. HGSE has been studying how people learn for decades. We turn decades of research on learning and human development into clear guidance, tools, and training, so educators, families, and leaders can judge the AI in learners’ lives and begin to shape it.
Grounded in evidence and transparent about what we don’t yet know.
