Hey, future Truth Sleuths!
Ready to uncover the difference between fact and fiction? I’ve created these free tools to show you that learning can be an adventure—especially when you turn it into a game for others to play!
🕵️♂️ Your Truth Quest begins now:
🎲 Level 1: Play Professor Independence and the Quest for Truth.
🎮 Level 2: Create your own reality-based game in the Quest Lab.
🔍 Level 3: Refine, rebuild, and challenge players with even better games!
The path to mastery isn’t easy—it’s a gritty adventure. Are you ready?
- Jeremy Royster
Founder
The path to mastery, my friends, is gritty, But worth it.
Fearless Adventures In Learning is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to gamifying the development of media literacy. Our goal is to found a thriving, collaborative community that creates and critiques media literacy educational games for each other. Our work is driven by the support of passionate individuals and generous donors who believe in making a difference. Every contribution helps us move closer to achieving our goals and creating a lasting impact.
The mission behind our work
We envision a world of open-minded, resilient, compromise-seekers with the grit necessary to judiciously verify new information. We believe that our work will codify a new methodology for learning how to learn, and add moderate voices to the nuanced multilogue necessary for a democracy to function.
The story behind us
Jeremy Royster, a veteran public school teacher, saw engagement and critical thinking soar when he began designing lessons around games. His role shifted from sage on the stage to guide on the side as students took charge of their own learning. They craved tougher challenges, embraced setbacks as part of the process, and discovered that the most powerful learning happens through play.
Jeremy created this platform to help teachers bring game-building into their own classrooms. These quests invite students to think independently, persist through challenges, and sharpen their media literacy skills as they weave real-world information into fact-based games.Whether used as a class project, a Genius Hour option, or an extension to core coursework, these quests build the kind of resilient, truth-seeking mindset today’s learners need most.
The values that drive
everything we do
Grit
"Success is never final; failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts." ― Angela Duckworth: Grit
Growth
Anyone’s intelligence can grow. A belief in one's ability to improve, coupled with the joyful pursuit of a passion, yields tremendous advantages.
“Many growth-minded people didn’t even plan to go to the top. They got there as a result of doing what they love.” ― Carol Dweck, Mindset: The Psychology of Success
freedom
The best learning is playing. Play provides learning benefits including (but not limited to) improved memory, better language and math skills, and creative problem solving,
“Control leads to compliance. Autonomy leads to engagement.” ― Daniel H. Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Independence
Truly independent thought depends on media literacy. Without the ability to recognize misinformation, we are all vulnerable to manipulation.
As Benjamin Franklin wisely put it: "Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn." ― Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1755
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