ActiveMar 8, 2026

NSF · confirmed by TERC, 2024

12%

gain in science & engineering practices — after one day

After a single day of play, students gained 12% in science & engineering practices — a result independently confirmed by evaluators at TERC in 2024.

Source · NSF · confirmed by TERC, 2024

A full write-up of this study is on the way.

Link to thisOpen page

More from the feed.

See everything →

About twenty attendees seated around a long arrangement of tables in a Duke classroom, laptops and notebooks open, with the “Preconf Tyto Hackathon” title slide projected on the screen behind them.

5 photos · 3 clips

Field notes · Serious Play Conference

Twenty people, one day, playable quests

Immersed Games ran its first hackathon as a Serious Play pre-conference event — about twenty instructional designers, builders, and educators, one day, playable quests.

Aug 4, 2026Read note

Sunset over the open-air main stage on the San Diego waterfront, attendees seated on the grass.

4 photos

Field notes · ASU+GSV Summit

The hard part isn’t the AI. It’s the pedagogy layer.

Four days of back-to-back conversations at ASU+GSV, and one thread kept surfacing: the hard part of edtech right now isn’t the AI or the content.

Apr 18, 2026Read note

Watch · Tyto Online

Authoring Studio — platform walkthrough