In my 2025 AI Journal article, I explored how adaptive curriculum can ‘learn back’ from every student. By modeling real-time signals—not averages—AI personalizes instruction, supports neurodiverse learners, and frees teachers to focus on what matters most: human connection.
Students will spend hours struggling through difficult problems in games voluntarily, yet often disengage from academically simpler tasks. In this article, I explore why games do not simply “motivate” learning, but restructure the conditions around persistence by integrating feedback, identity, progression, challenge, meaning, and mastery into one coherent system.
