LLM Based Education Games Will Be a Big Deal
LLM-based educational games will be a big dealFor the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that might look like.Benjamin BreenMay 14, 20243124ShareThis is a mockup of a non-existent LLM-based educational game called Mexico City Apothecary that I made for this post. But it could be real!For more than a year now, I’ve been experimenting with using ChatGPT (and more recently, Claude and Gemini) to create deeply imperfect — but also, I think, fascinatingly weird and pedagogically useful — “simulations” of historical settings for use in my classes at UC Santa Cruz.
- ▪LLM-based educational games will be a big dealFor the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning.
- ▪Here's what that might look like.Benjamin BreenMay 14, 20243124ShareThis is a mockup of a non-existent LLM-based educational game called Mexico City Apothecary that I made for this post.
- ▪But it could be real!For more than a year now, I’ve been experimenting with using ChatGPT (and more recently, Claude and Gemini) to create deeply imperfect — but also, I think, fascinatingly weird and pedagogically useful — “simulations” of
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LLM-based educational games will be a big dealFor the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that might look like.Benjamin BreenMay 14, 20243124ShareThis is a mockup of a non-existent LLM-based educational game called Mexico City Apothecary that I made for this post. But it could be real!For more than a year now, I’ve been experimenting with using ChatGPT (and more recently, Claude and Gemini) to create deeply imperfect — but also, I think, fascinatingly weird and pedagogically useful — “simulations” of historical settings for use in my classes at UC Santa Cruz.
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