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Opinion: We need D&D in our classrooms!

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A Short Rant on why WotC needs to enter the Educational Gamification Space I hate to beat a dead unicorn, but I just wanted to write a short (tumblr-sized, but who uses tumblr anymore?) post about the secondary education gamification space and why Wizards of the Coast should throw their hat in the ring.   A void in the space We all know that the elementary folks have Class Dojo , and until early 2019, the secondary folks had  Classcraft . At what I would consider the height of that service's popularity, they made themselves more elementary-friendly and, as a result, way less relevant in the secondary space . I don't know how they're doing as a company, but no one I know even talks about  Classcraft  anymore. You can read more about the changes  here  and  here . A player that's already in the game... Participation in tabletop cooperative role playing games like D&D has been shown to help us  develop social skills , prime our brains for  interdisciplinary stem lear