FEATURES & BENEFITS

FOCUS, ATTENTION MUSCLE:  When playing Minecraft, the ability to focus — to really sustain attention on one task for an extended period of time — is incredibly important. If you want to build something large or complicated, you have to stay on a particular task through numerous different steps and processes, sometimes for hours on end.  When a child is building something in Minecraft in this course, it’s amazing to think he/she has ADHD at all because he/she is clearly focusing so intently.  And the idea is that he/she is exercising that skill in the Minecraft environment, building up the attention muscle so that he can use it at school and while doing homework.

PLANNING SKILLS:  At school, kids are often asked to plan a project or what they’re going to do for homework. They can be very disorganized and struggle to walk through all the steps that planning necessitates. In this course, Minecraft also asks kids to plan intensely to build some big, cool project. They’ll have to gather and craft all the different items that they’re going to need to build it. They start at the ground level and then build in stages, making sure to keep in mind their plan and how they’re accomplishing it. This is a much more fun and engaging way for them to learn Planning Skills.