BUILDING SWBAT is being built in public with working educators.

Instructional design × AI × Learning

Design how people learn.

Instructional and learning-system design for founders and growing teams. Built like real education.

Onboarding, training, courses and AI tutors, designed by an educator with twenty years in the room. Edge Cases is where we test new ideas, in public.

The SWBAT pencil-rocket mark rising through Learn, Apply, Build and Ascend, captioned: Learning is a lever. Let’s launch.

Edge Cases — the series

Case files from the edge of learning.

A real learner scenario, the design move, and what happened. Evidence over enthusiasm.

01

Shy students, brave discussions

Agent-led Socratic circles as rehearsal before speaking with peers.

[Episode coming — link when published]
02

One graph, five outputs

One lesson knowledge graph becomes slides, a script, a practice set, a tutor and a test.

[Episode coming — link when published]
03

A patient partner for speech

Conversation practice for language learners and communication goals.

[Episode coming — link when published]

Work compounds

Your work shouldn’t disappear when the lesson ends.

  1. 1Learn
  2. 2Make
  3. 3Use
  4. 4Reflect
  5. 5Improve

Over time, useful professional context should accumulate instead of vanishing into folders, tabs and forgotten chats.

Field notes

Thinking out loud.

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