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Thoughts on immersive learning, XR, game design, and the future of education

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BILGE, Missions, and Classroom Scenarios — AfetAkademi BKT/Piaget Series Part 3

March 14, 2026

In Part 1 I explained why I built a 13-model BKT architecture instead of the standard single-model approach. In Part 2 I described how I mapped Piaget's cognitive development stages onto that architecture's parameters. But that was still the "engine in the background." In this post I describe how I turned that engine into the BILGE mentor character on the child's screen, the mission system, and classroom-oriented scenarios.

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Why 13 Models? Going Beyond Standard BKT in a Serious Game

March 6, 2026

When I started designing the learning engine for AfetAkademi 8-16 — I knew I wanted to use Bayesian Knowledge Tracing. BKT is elegant, interpretable, and grounded in decades of research going back to Corbett & Anderson (1995). "But the more I thought about what I actually needed to model, the more I realized: one model per skill wasn't going to be enough." This is the story of why I ended up with 13.

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Mitigating the Knowledge-Action Gap: A Bayesian and Distributed Cognition Approach to XR Disaster Training

February 21, 2026

Traditional disaster drills provide theoretical knowledge but consistently fail to activate the psychomotor speed and decisional agency required under high-stress crisis conditions. This failure leads to the "Knowledge-Action Gap," where individuals experience a paralyzing response during actual seismic events. This article examines an XR-based and AI-driven "Intelligent Disaster Learning Architecture" designed to reprogram human cognition under pressure. Our systemic approach utilizes a Distributed Cognition model to mitigate cognitive overload, operationalized through characters representing Jungian functions of consciousness. At the architecture's core, a Bayesian Knowledge Tracing (BKT) algorithm analyzes learner performance at 60 FPS, distinguishing between momentary slips and genuine knowledge gaps. By moving beyond subjective self-reports, the study utilizes Stealth Assessment to record millisecond latencies and decision-making patterns, providing an evidence-based model for predicting real-world survival performance.

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