Field notes from a learning studio.

Why Games? (The Real Answer)

Most people come to game-based learning thinking "kids love games, let’s use that." I came from the opposite direction. Here’s what a decade of World of Warcraft raids taught me about pedagogy — and the three principles it produced.

The General Public Still Doesn’t Understand the Purpose of Education

Being able to answer homework questions quickly doesn’t produce the type of citizens we need in the world. We’re updating the theories behind how we teach, and need to help the public understand these shifts.

Founder and CEO Lindsey Tropf joined a Serious Play panel on how education teams are actually using AI, where the guardrails belong, and the one guideline each panelist would want the field to adopt.

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

A world to investigate, phenomena firsthand, decisions with consequences, low-stakes failure. Games already deliver what inquiry needs.

What we learned building for blind & visually impaired students. Why they want to explore, not just complete tasks.

Targeted programs reach a fraction of the girls who need them. Transforming how STEM is encountered during school reaches everyone.

A conference session on the Tyto co-creation model drew a small group — and became a working conversation about what its first year has and hasn’t solved.

In a well-designed game, evidence of learning is everywhere. The question isn’t whether assessment is happening — it’s what the evidence is for.

Immersed Games is codesigning a statistics quest with middle schoolers at Buffalo Public Schools — by handing them the story and watching what they do with it.