It was launched in early July, so keep an eye on this page for more information to come, including a D&D Afterschool Kit that will be free for educators. This is a newly designed page with links to other resources and videos. In particular, what you will not get from this is the overall excitement and enthusiasm attendees brought to this event.įirst off, go to Wizards of The Coast’s resource page for educators. I’m going to attempt to summarize that additional info here and now, and I’ll do the same after those other two (if I can), but I’m going to miss things. But I recommend trying to be there in person if you can: The Zoom chat during the first webinar was lively and full of great additional information from the various attendees and panelists. If you can’t attend either of those sessions live, the recordings will also be available on YouTube soon after each event. ![]() The third event, Using Dungeons & Dragons to Scaffold Writing Instruction, is on October 11 at 5:00 p.m. Our second event, Leveling Up Reluctant Readers With Dungeons & Dragons, is just around the corner on August 9 at 5:00 p.m. ![]() That event occurred on July 12, but fret not if you missed it: The recording of the event is available on demand on ILA’s YouTube channel. Our first of the three, Building Emotional Literacy Through Dungeons & Dragons, centered the idea of using D&D to provoke teamwork and group thinking and to enhance social-emotional learning (SEL) through D&D’s collaborative storytelling elements. The goals of our three free ILAWebinars that center D&D, all sponsored in part by Wizards of the Coast, focus on more specific avenues of learning. However, fixing those issues did not diminish D&D as a platform for literacy and math learning and education in general. Fortunately, those issues have been fixed across the past 50ish years of the game being in publication. The rule books were long and complicated to read and understand, and there was a lot of math-just a lot of weird math!-and that, too, was often unintuitive. I have been playing D&D for over 30 years now-I still have a standing game on Wednesday nights with my college group-so I cannot even begin to describe how excited I am for this partnership.ĭ&D has always required a depth of knowledge and understanding to play, particularly in the older editions when the rules were overly complex and sometimes unintuitive. I hope you will forgive me my opening flair for the dramatic. Please, pull up a chair and listen to a tale most fantastic about two powerful heroes, Ila and WotC, and their journey to spread the knowledge about how one of the oldest and most well-known of tabletop role-playing games (RPGs) can be used to strengthen students’ literacy outcomes.Īnd by Ila, I mean the International Literacy Association (ILA), and by WotC, I mean Wizards of the Coast, and by most well-known of tabletop role-playing games I mean Dungeons & Dragons (D&D).
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