Fostering Community and Combating Student Apathy Through Safe, Engaging Multiplayer Learning Experiences

Building community through meaningful social experiences can be difficult for K-12 students, but it’s essential for their retention, engagement, and outcomes. In this session, we’ll explore 10 principles for designing virtual experiences that foster friendships, social skills and peer collaboration.

You’ll leave with a ready-to-implement blueprint for a virtual experience tailored to your students. We’ll also address challenges students face when socializing online and how to ensure their well-being without overwhelming staff with supervision tasks. Finally, we’ll discuss why multiplayer social experiences are critical for student development and share strategies to get colleagues and families excited about trying innovative approaches.

If someone was doing a search for your session in the program what 5 words might they use to search for and find your session.: Community, SEL, engagement, retention, connection