Category: EdTech Inquiry

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Here is the website for Classcraft which I was introduced to on my Wednesday visit to Belmont. The teacher, Mr. Martin, uses it for his IMPACT classroom and has had some previous success with it in elementary classrooms. He expressed a desire for an updated version or for someone to take this concept and make it applicable to an older audience.

This video I found via Dave’s 352 blog post and I think it ties in wonderfully with the question – “what are the educational applications of digital roleplaying for K-12?”

Regarding my EdTech inquiry of the educational applications of digital roleplaying games for k-12 classrooms, I will look further into the following titles: Gaming for Classroom-Based Learning by Baek, Young Kyun, Dungeons, Dragons, and Digital Denizens: The Digital Role-Playing Game by Steven A. Torres-Roman, Cason E. Snow, Dragons in the Stacks: A Teen Librarian’s GUide to Tabletop Role-Playing by Steven A. Torres-Roman, Cason E. Snow and Teach Like a Gamer: Adapting the Instructional Design of Digital Role by Carly Finseth.

As it stands, our group has decided on the question of “what are the educational applications of digital roleplaying for K-12 within the classroom.” While the question might be a little too broad at the moment, the hope is for our initial research, questions, browsing, etc to lead us towards something more specific – perhaps a specific roleplaying tool, or the extent to which “agency” factors in. We will be using a Trello board to keep our findings organized and assign individual tasks along the way.