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As the school year winds down and student focus becomes challenging, we’re excited to announce our latest Awakening update!
V1.0.1 is perfectly timed to maintain classroom engagement when you need it most AND combat the dreaded summer learning loss.
Sustaining Learning Momentum When It Matters Most
We understand the struggle of keeping students motivated during the final stretch of the academic year. That’s why we’re thrilled to announce that a new Awakening release has been launched!
This update provides fresh educational content to captivate your students’ attention right through the last day of school—and can serve as an engaging bridge to prevent the summer slump.
Let’s zoom in!
New Curriculum-Connected Adventures
The expanded main quest line introduces a Dance Competition and Initiation Party for the Order of the Eternal Flame, offering:
- Creative Arts Integration: Designing party attire, house decorations, and choreographing dance moves reinforces creative expression.
- Social Studies Elements: The Order of the Eternal Flame activities promote understanding of social structures and community participation.
- Collaborative Learning: Club activities encourage teamwork and peer-to-peer learning opportunities.
These storylines aren’t just fun—they’re designed to reinforce key curriculum standards while providing a refreshing context that fights end-of-year fatigue.
Quests are perfectly designed to avoid summer slide with engaging content that keeps students having fun throughout the summer.
Enhanced Differentiation Through the Beastie System
The revamped beastie system provides excellent opportunities for differentiated instruction:
- Scaffolded Challenges: Every scene now features shadow beasties that appear on the mini-map, allowing students to progress at their own pace.
- Progressive Difficulty: After clearing shadow beasties, wild beasties appear, creating natural advancement for faster learners.
- Expanded Collection: Any beastie can now appear as a wild beast, motivating collection-minded students.
- Balanced Battles: Our retuned difficulty system ensures appropriate challenge levels for all students.
Technical Improvements for Seamless Classroom Implementation
We’ve eliminated barriers to learning with critical technical updates:
- Unity 6 (underlying game technology) Upgrade: Resolves device compatibility issues some classrooms were experiencing.
- Optimized Performance: Ensures smooth gameplay even on older school technology.
- Consistent Experience: All students can now participate fully regardless of device type.
Classroom Management Benefits
Awakening continues to offer the classroom management tools teachers rely on:
- Progress Tracking: Monitor student advancement through the expanded quest line.
- Engagement Metrics: Identify which learning activities most captivate your specific students.
- Easy Assessment: Gauge understanding through in-game achievements tied to learning objectives.
Read the blog: Teaching Strategies: 7 Advantages of Game-Based Learning
Avoid Summer Slide with Awakening
Students can lose up to 2-3 months of academic progress during summer break. Research from the RAND Corporation highlights that these losses can have a cumulative effect, impacting students’ long-term academic performance.
Awakening offers a powerful solution:
- Continuous Engagement: The expanded quest line and new beastie system provide compelling reasons for students to keep playing—and learning—throughout the summer.
- Home-School Connection: Recommend Awakening as a parent-approved summer activity that disguises learning as entertainment.
- Skill Maintenance: Core academic concepts are reinforced through gameplay, ensuring students retain critical knowledge.
- Progress Reports: Track which students are maintaining engagement over summer, helping identify those who might need additional support in fall.
Subscription Value for End-of-Year Budgets and Summer Learning
We’re adjusting level caps to provide clear value differentiation:
- Free Access: Students can progress to level 5, perfect for sampling the platform
- Subscription Access: Full progression to level 10, unlocking all educational content
The 1.0.1 update launches just in time for the final push of the school year.
Let Awakening help you maintain student engagement during these critical weeks when attention typically wanes, while setting students up for a summer of continued learning disguised as adventure.
Your educational objectives remain our priority as we continue enhancing this powerful game-based learning environment.
Have questions? Reach out to us at support@legendsoflearning.com
