Movements Overview
Movements in the Prototype​
The following table summarizes the RTS Movements, the learning practices they support, and the current + future AI roles under exploration.
Note: Based on real world lesson plans and activities, the first three movements are the core initiating postures of the process from the Research To Story process. During development of RTS, these three movements are collapsing into one essential movement.*
| RTS Movement | Knowledge Practice | Disposition | Current AI Role in Prototype | Explore Further AI Role (Brainstorming) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.1. Personal Connection | Frame inquiry through personal relevance and emerging questions | Curiosity, openness to shaping one’s own path of inquiry | Static "mirror" prompts about curiosity | (Adaptive Memory Mirror) A personal, AI‑powered rear‑view mirror showing patterns from reflections. |
| 1.2. Research Potential | Identify tensions, assumptions, and gaps in current knowledge | Willingness to embrace complexity and revise understanding | Socratic questions about gaps & assumptions | (Contradiction Miner) A lightweight agent that surfaces counter-claims to confront tension. |
| 1.3. Public Impact / Audience Awareness | Consider how research enters public discourse and affects audiences | Responsibility to communicate ethically and clearly to others | Prompts to name audience & stakes | (Audience Persona Generator) Helps students name and empathize with real listeners. |
| 2. Friction and Surprise | Reflect on contradiction and discomfort as sources of insight | Comfort with ambiguity and intellectual risk-taking | Prompts to reflect on discomforts & blind spots | (Devil-in-the-Data Bot) A miniature AI provocateur that drops a well‑sourced “Oh really?” into the student’s narrative, pushing them to verify or refute rather than coast on confirmation.* |
| 3. Listening for Medium | Analyze how medium shapes rhetorical form and interpretive choices | Appreciation for affordances and limitations of formats | Prompts about audio affordances | (Audio Motif Suggester) Turns ideas into sound design sketches. |
| 3a. Applied Podcast Analysis | Evaluate rhetorical structure, voice, and delivery in audio works | Attention to craft and audience needs | Manual beat-mapping/story moves worksheet | (Story-Move Mapper) Tags narrative "moves" inside transcripts. |
| 4. Research Paths + Metadata Connection | Use strategic vocabulary development and metadata exploration | Persistence in unfamiliar scholarly contexts | Keyword-builder & query helper | (Cross-Disciplinary Lens) Maps student keywords across scholarly neighborhoods. |
| 4a. Framing Through Language | Reflect on how framing shapes inquiry and perception | Critical awareness of terminology and its implications | Socratic prompts on terminology | (Bias Heat-Map) Visualizes bias in keyword choices. |
| 5. Expectations and the Black Box | Examine technological assumptions and reflect on tool use | Self-awareness about technological agency | Prompts about black-box tech fears | (Friction Forecaster) Warns about common production bottlenecks. |
| 6. Synthesis Reflection | Integrate insights into rhetorical stance for narrative framing | Reflectiveness, sense of purpose, intentionality | Synthesizes topics, questions, keywords | (Narrative Scaffold Composer) Distills Phase 1 into ABT (And/But/Therefore) and time-boxed audio plan. |