Designing
educational AI for human growth
AI is changing how people learn, faster than ever. Some of it helps. Some of it quietly does the thinking for us. That last part is worth paying close attention to.
The real question isn't whether to use AI in learning. It's whether the AI we build helps people reflect, create, and act for themselves, or slowly does it for them.
RootHuman™ helps educators, designers, and organizations create AI experiences that support human growth rather than stand in for it. Through frameworks, training, consulting, and AI-powered tools, we help people strengthen creativity, critical thinking, and agency, and become more of who they are.
RootHuman AI Design Studio
No coding required
A video-guided course, community, and AI thinking partner for learning designers, educators, course creators, coaches, and founders who want to build AI learning experiences the right way.
Inside, you'll learn to design AI apps grounded in the Human-AI Learning Design Framework, step by step, so what you build deepens learning instead of flattening it. You'll leave with a real design for your own AI learning experience, and the evaluation tools to know whether it's working.
This is for you if you're building, or planning to build, an educational AI tool and you want it to genuinely serve the people who use it.
Starts
August 2026
The Human-AI Review Studio
Building educational AI is only the first step.
The deeper question is what your AI is teaching people to become.
The Human-AI Review Lab helps educators, designers, and organizations evaluate AI learning experiences through the lens of human growth, creativity, reflection, and agency, offering a clear view of how technology is shaping learning.
Coming after the Design Lab.
roothuman.ai was founded by Dr. Lisa Dawley who has spent decades at the meeting point of learning and technology: immersive learning, virtual worlds, educational innovation, human-centered design, and now AI-supported learning.
The Human-AI Learning Design Framework grew out of that work and is published through her research at the University of San Diego.