Matthew Farber

Matthew Farber, Ed.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Technology, Innovation, and Pedagogy program at the University of Northern Colorado. Dr. Farber has been invited to the White House, to keynote for UNESCO, and he has been interviewed about games and learning by NPR, Fox News Radio, USA TODAY and The Wall Street Journal. He is also an Edutopia blogger, a Certified BrainPOP Educator, and he is in the iCivics Educator Network. His first book, Gamify Your Classroom: A Field Guide to Game-Based Learning — Revised Edition features a foreword from USA TODAY's Greg Toppo. He is the also co-editor of The Game Jam Guide (Carnegie Mellon University: ETC Press, 2017). His newest book, Game-Based Learning in Action: How an Expert Affinity Group Teaches with Games (Peter Lang, 2018), has a foreword from James Paul Gee. To learn more, visit: MatthewFarber.com.

Publications

The Quest for Learning: Promoting Engagement and Disciplinary Literacy Through Game-Based Quests
The Quest for Learning: Promoting Engagement and Disciplinary Literacy Through Game-Based Quests
Anastasia Lynn Betts, Nika Fabienke, Matthew Farber. © 2021. 28 pages.
A focus on disciplinary literacy may hold promise for increasing student engagement and achievement. This chapter focuses on the use of the “quest” (a mechanic common in video...
Gaming Literacy and Its Potential for Teaching Social and Emotional Learning to Adolescent Children
Gaming Literacy and Its Potential for Teaching Social and Emotional Learning to Adolescent Children
Matthew Farber. © 2021. 25 pages.
As interactive multimodal texts, video games can teach SEL because of their unique affordances. This chapter investigates how playing video games can teach literacy to adolescent...
Global Perspectives on Gameful and Playful Teaching and Learning
Global Perspectives on Gameful and Playful Teaching and Learning
Matthew Farber. © 2020. 330 pages.
In the fast-changing field of education, the incorporation of game-based learning has been increasing in order to promote more successful learning instruction. Improving the...