Artifacts
A Tidepool Pod holds itself up like a tensegrity structure: no one carries it all. These are the pieces that do the carrying, so the people inside a pod can show up as themselves.
PIO
Before any math happens, everyone shares a PIO: how I learn, what I need, what I bring.
It travels with you from pod to pod, so you never have to explain yourself from scratch, and the people around you can meet you where you are.
Mathfolio
As a pod notices, wonders, questions, mathematizes and revises together, it builds a record of real thinking. A Mathfolio is the option to gather your part of that record into something that is yours.
Not a grade book. A map of where your thinking has been.
Protocols
Protocols carry the plan, so you can show up fully without preparing ahead. Each pod uses existing protocols to notice, wonder, question, mathematize and revise together.
Flip through the protocol Rolodex to see how a session can run, and who holds which role.
JoyBot
JoyBot is a helper AI that isn't connected to the internet. It's fully coded and self-contained, with the potential to take on updates, so you can use it comfortably without worrying that it will go rogue.
It's there to help you understand how to carry out your role, how to work with others in your learning pod, and what a mathematical word or idea means when you need it clarified.
JoyBot is still in early design, so exactly what it will hold, perhaps a full dictionary or an offline copy of Wikipedia, is still taking shape.