Everything in this resource hub is written by Professor Michael Kasumovic, evolutionary biologist at UNSW Sydney, or developed from his research. These are not marketing articles. They are substantive guides designed to help teachers and parents make sense of how children actually learn science.
This guide is for anyone who has heard the phrase ‘game-based learning’ and wanted a clear, honest answer to a simple question: does it actually work? Not a sales pitch. Not a list of benefits with no mechanism. A real explanation of what game-based learning is, why it works when it works, what separates it […]
Science at home doesn’t require a lab kit, a curriculum, or a science degree. It requires curiosity and conversation — two things every family already has. The challenge is knowing how to use them. This guide is for parents and homeschooling families who want to support real scientific thinking at home. Not science trivia. Not […]
Most career education programs for children tell kids what scientists do. They describe the job, explain the pathway, list the skills required. What they rarely do is let children meet a real scientist — someone with a face and a story and a specific thing they’re trying to figure out — and think: that could […]
Children are natural scientists. Before they set foot in a classroom, they’ve already developed elaborate theories about how the physical world works — why objects fall, how plants grow, what makes something alive. Those theories are often wrong in ways that matter. But they’re never random. They come from experience, observation, and reasoning. Understanding how […]
Scientific thinking is not a school subject. It’s a way of engaging with the world — noticing things, asking why, forming a guess about the answer, testing it, and updating your understanding when the results come in. Every child does this naturally. They’ve been doing it since before they could talk. The challenge isn’t teaching […]
Ask most people what game-based learning looks like and they’ll picture a quiz dressed up with points and timers. That’s not what it is. At its best, game-based learning doesn’t put a game on top of science — it makes the game the science. When it’s designed well, a child playing is doing the same […]
Professor Michael Kasumovic is an evolutionary biologist at UNSW Sydney who has been researching game-based learning and its effects on self-perception for over a decade. He is the founder of Arludo and teaches at UNSW, where he uses Arludo in his own courses.
His research asks a specific question: what happens to how people see themselves when they play competitive games? The findings — that well-designed games can shift self-perception in measurable ways — underpin the design of every Arludo game and resource.
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