Cognition & Chaos

03/13/2026

Good news everyone! I passed my dissertation proposal today! One step closer!

03/12/2026

I've been on Facebook long enough to know the rhythm of this place. I read. I scroll. I mostly keep moving.

But I keep seeing the same arguments recycled, and I've had enough of them.

Students will cheat with AI. They won't actually learn. You can't use it safely with children. It gives everyone the same generic experience. It's a K-12 tool or a college tool; pick one.

I built something that answers all five. Not in a white paper. In production.

Sage is a Custom GPT writing tutor I designed for a K-12 summer camp storybook program. Custom GPTs have existed since 2023. I watched them. I waited. The framework only recently reached the point where I find it worth building on seriously, so I did.

The core rule has never changed across seven versions of its architecture: Sage will not write for a student. It guides. It questions. It scaffolds. A student who wants to move forward has to think, because that is the only way through. It scales its tone dynamically by grade level. It offers every student the same creative choices regardless of age, because access to rich learning should not be rationed. Its content permissions are tiered by grade, and its child safety rules are hard-coded, not suggested. And it was designed from the start so that the same architecture that works for a seven-year-old writing a storybook also works for a college student drafting a personal essay.

It is free to use, for now. Try to get it to do your homework.

Sage, Creative Writing Studio Tutor: https://lnkd.in/gJuUe5by

I also collaborated with a colleague on an ISTE Digital Citizenship simulation for pre-service teachers. That one is worth a look, too.

ISTE Digital Citizenship Simulation: https://lnkd.in/gjqwnMNW

If you want to talk about what responsible AI design in education actually looks like, I'm here.

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

11/06/2025

🎮 This week on Cognition & Chaos, I’m taking you inside Soulframe to talk about one of the most fascinating ideas in game design: Bartle’s Explorer type.

Richard Bartle—co-creator of the first multiplayer online world—mapped out four kinds of players: Achievers, Explorers, Socializers, and Killers. Explorers are the ones who dig into every corner of a system just to see how it works. They experiment, wander, and learn for the joy of discovery.

Inside Soulframe’s fog-shrouded world, I’ll connect Bartle’s framework to how we design lessons, quests, and learning experiences that reward curiosity rather than compliance. Because, whether you’re a gamer, designer, or teacher, exploration isn’t just play—it’s how we learn.

🎥 The episode, “Bartle’s Explorers: Curiosity and Discovery in Soulframe,” drops tonight right here on the channel.

11/03/2025

🎮 This week on Cognition & Chaos, I’m taking you inside Soulframe to talk about one of the most fascinating ideas in game design: Bartle’s Explorer type.

Richard Bartle—co-creator of the first multiplayer online world—mapped out four kinds of players: Achievers, Explorers, Socializers, and Killers. Explorers are the ones who dig into every corner of a system just to see how it works. They experiment, wander, and learn for the joy of discovery.

Inside Soulframe’s fog-shrouded world, I’ll connect Bartle’s framework to how we design lessons, quests, and learning experiences that reward curiosity rather than compliance. Because, whether you’re a gamer, designer, or teacher, exploration isn’t just play—it’s how we learn.

11/03/2025

My stream tests are completed and were successful. I'll be starting my Cognition & Chaos Educational Games Series this week. Hang in there, between work, writing my dissertation and development of my streaming platforms things are rolling out.

11/02/2025

Final Stream Test | Soulframe

10/29/2025

Stream 1

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Stream 2

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Stream 3

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Stream 4

10/29/2025

Stream three. Still tweaking!