Great for Student Engagement

It is an awesome game that meets both the social and emotional need of students. I love how it makes learning an adventure individually while collaborating with others around them. I love how students can play this game any time they have free and can pick up where they last left off. I love how adaptable the game is and the teacher has a lot of say in what the game is teaching. It gives the teacher the chance to leave feedback, which can be a positive or a negative depending on how you look at it. The gaming aspect of the website is very addicting to children and this allows to feel as if they have freedom in the classroom learning by a way that they love.

Classcraft is great for letting students differentiate learning and make choices based on their personal interests. The fantasy elements of it make it feel more like a game, instead of an educational tool which allows for the students to get lost in the world and keep wanting to come back to learn more. In my time with Classcraft, I was only able to explore for so long. I would be curious how many Quests you can build and how you can intertwine your curriculum throughout the year so that it feels like a completed project. I worry that the wording might be daunting for some students, but I feel that the images and personalization allows for students to jump in as they please. As long as you are allowing for students to interact with one another and the world, it would be a great tool. Otherwise, they are going to be hampered by the lack of interaction. I can't wait to try it again!

There are options to use it more as a teaching tool; however, I really didn't explore that as I was looking for discipline management. Each semester I would have a couple kids who didn't really care about the events but their teams usually helped move them along and kept them at least moderately involved.