Our Story
We are creating a video-game based platform where you will be able to learn anything.
Students create a character in an online 3D world with educational, enrichment, and simply fun social content. This is the base game structure that includes addictive, sticky elements such as a leveling system, achievements and badges, and the social and story aspects.
We can flexibly add modules of content into the game. Each module includes two parts:
— Quest to Learn: quests aligned with standards, which are great learning tools as they involve problem solving within the context/story of the game (which gives it relevance).
— Learning Sandbox: capstone experience that is re-playable where students build and learn through experimentation.
The Learning Sandbox is part of our unique approach to educational gameplay, allowing students to "pull in" learning to master the game, rather than simply pushing the information onto them. Our first module is for middle school ecology, with quests that teach the content through problem solving (for example, solving an invasive species problem), and a sandbox where students build and maintain their own ecosystem.
Most people in the educational games space tend to focus on making interesting individual apps, but they don’t support long-term retention of users, and the learning benefits that come with it. In contrast, by building with core content, enrichment, and social contest all in a single game world crafted for relevant learning experiences, we’ll be able to retain users in our game, leading to more learning and, of course, recurring revenue.
Another benefit of keeping the students’ learning gameplay together in this single game is that we’ve built a learning dashboard that tracks their progress over time. We’ll be able to suggest the next relevant content, and even use it to bridge the gap to real-life. As students complete quests, we suggest related activities the parent can complete with them to connect the learning experiences.
Find our game, Tyto Online, at www.tytoonline.com
