Matthew Farber

🚀 It's book launch day! In "The Well-Read Game," @kinojabber.bsky.social & I explore the experiences we have when we play games and how players evoke personal and subjective meanings through a new theory of player response. @mitpress.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026255223...

The syllabus for my grad course "Designing, Playing and Learning" is featured in Volume II of "Teaching the Game", an open-access book of games syllabi edited by Richard Ferdig, Emily Baumgartner, and Enrico Gandolfi. From Play Story Press, here: playstorypress.org/books/teachi...

Our book! Free as a PDF, too!

🚨 New article alert! Critical Voice: Centering Students With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in Postsecondary Education Through Participatory Co-Design of Micro TTRPGs (2026-06-02) doi: doi.org/10.1177/1046...

Excited to share that Tracy Fullerton and I co-edited a special issue of the Well Played Journal, now available open-access through Play Story Press. The issue features 18 essays exploring games through our “player-response” interpretive play lens from our book, 🎮📚 works.hcommons.org/records/ggvs...

My (very personal) essay about FF7 is live in this special issue :) it was an extremely life affirming exercise to write this! Thank you to The Well-Read Game authors and Play Story Press for giving me the opportunity to publish it! drive.google.com/file/d/1s-vh...

Thanks for your contribution!! 🤩

Excited to guest with Tracy Fullerton on the Words, Images, & Worlds podcast with Jason DeHart!!! 🤩 youtu.be/1rdyhyj3Rh4

We're on the No Such Thing podcast! Check it out! shows.acast.com/nosuchthing/...

ICYMI - Tracy Fullerton's Walden, a game EDU, and the curriculum I co-wrote with her, was railroaded in a NY Times "opinion" hit piece this past weekend. Games for Change just published a terrific response. Please read. And share. www.gamesforchange.org/blog_posts/t...

Playing @tinybookshopgame.com, loading up my Goodreads! 📚

One more post about "Roll for Learning"! Here's a 'book talk' that Play Story Press organized with me, @docfarber.bsky.social and Will about this playable volume composed of 51 educational micro TTRPGs. Find it below, and watch for the moment where we momentarily lost Drew and kept going anyway!

Our book is a Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title 2025! www.choice360.org/choice-pick/...

It was great to discuss "Roll for Learning," the playable volume I edited with @docfarber.bsky.social and Will Merchant, with Garrett Munro and the fine community at TabletopEDU Inc. 1 / a few

Interested in our FULLY ONLINE Educational Technology MA Program? Or our in-person PhD? Join me for our Virtual Open House tomorrow, Feb 17, 5 pm MT. Register Today: admissions.unco.edu/register/ECI...

Last minute shopping today, nice to see our book on display! Our book is an Outstanding Academic Titles for 2025, selected from about 10% of 5,000 works reviewed annually in Choice, a publishing unit of the Association of College & Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association.

Life Goal Unlocked! Blog about our book shared by Penguin Random House! penguinrandomhousehighereducation.com/2025/12/11/v...

Life Goal Unlocked! Blog about our book shared by Penguin Random House! penguinrandomhousehighereducation.com/2025/12/11/v...

Our book is being featured in the current Bookshop.org promotion, “Gifts for the intellectually curious." Use code MITP15 for 15% OFF select titles (excludes ebook). Valid through 12/15/2025 bookshop.org/info/mit-press

Honored to receive this year’s Arno H. Luker Award as Outstanding Researcher. 🤠📚

Who will I see at National Council of Teachers of English in Denver next week? I’m pesenting a couple of times on games + new literacies!

Tracy Fullerton & I discussing our book on The Research Left Behind: youtu.be/pU6p28WXSa0?...

“After years of an unchanging gender division in computer science and engineering classes, the balance flipped with the addition of this new class.” Want to get more girls involved in STEM? Try this novel approach to integrating arts and computer science. 🪡🖥️ #PBL #EduSky #STEM

ICYMI Our latest post for Edutopia!

We give this school’s Comic-Con PBL experience 5 stars! ⭐ @dupriestmath.bsky.social and @docfarber.bsky.social share all the details of a venture course titled “The Art and Science of Cosplay”: https://edut.to/42UJhEE #PBL #EduSky

We just dropped the Thought Leader lineup for #IDEAcon 2026, and it’s 🔥. These educators and changemakers are ready to challenge, inspire, and co-create the future of learning. https://ideail.org/IDEAcon2026 Lisa Moe 🔜 #SpringCUE, ‪Marcus Luther‬, Matthew Farber, Wunneanatsu #IDEAil #EduSky

Can't wait!!! #IDEAil #EduSky

Latest for Edutopia! edut.to/4nFiKCZ

Coding meets cosplay in this school’s project-based learning experience! ⚙️🧵 Students build engineering, costume design, *and* event planning skills as they organize a community-wide Comic-Con. @dupriestmath.bsky.social & @docfarber.bsky.social explain how to launch a similar project! #PBL #EduSky

🎭✨ High school students at Compass Community Collaborative School take a course called “The Art and Science of Cosplay.” They’re sewing, crafting, coding in Python, and even organizing their own cosplay convention! Check out our full story on Edutopia 👇 🔗 www.edutopia.org/article/teac...

🎭✨ High school students at Compass Community Collaborative School take a course called “The Art and Science of Cosplay.” They’re sewing, crafting, coding in Python, and even organizing their own cosplay convention! Check out our full story on Edutopia 👇 🔗 www.edutopia.org/article/teac...

"With the foundation provided in 'The Well-Read Game,' players now have strong guidelines to experience their games to the fullest." — The Journal of Popular Culture Matthew Farber (@docfarber.bsky.social) and Tracy Fullerton's "The Well-Read Game" is available now: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255223...

Psyched to get into reading The Well-Read Game by Tracy Fullerton and @docfarber.bsky.social for our book club! We got so excited when we found out about the toolkit for book clubs (and an upcoming card game!)

Our book was just reviewed in The Journal of Popular Culture - Wiley Online Library! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

My latest for Edutopia: edut.to/4fqC7gf

Just over one week left to submit an abstract for this special issue of the Well Played Journal based on the ideas from our new book, The Well-Read Game: On Playing Thoughtfully!! More info here on the call for abstracts and submission process: playstorypress.org/2025/06/16/w...

I will be speaking on August 21, 10-11:15 am in Beefeater about building playful communities of research and practice through the example of the recent playable volume "Roll for Learning" that I co-edited with @docfarber.bsky.social and Will Merchant.

Want to foster the mindset students need to appreciate great literature? Try approaching video games as texts! 🎮 📖 Here’s how. #EduSky #literacy

My latest for Edutopia: edut.to/4fqC7gf

By approaching games as texts, teachers can foster the mindset students need to appreciate great literature. My latest for @edutopia.org: www.edutopia.org/article/inte...

In current work, we're building tools for helping kids reflect more deeply on their gaming to hopefully spur some of the processing required for those experiences to become personally meaningful. Fullerton & Farber's theory of player response is a huge inspo here. (see bsky.app/profile/docf...)

Decisions, decisions...

🚨 New blog alert! "A New Theory of Player Response," about Tracy Fullerton @kinojabber.bsky.social and my new book! clalliance.org/blog/a-new-t...

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Tracy Fullerton's (@kinojabber.bsky.social)j blog post for Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, in which she shares key ideas from our new book! Check it out!

📣 Play Story Press is accepting submissions for a special Well Played journal issue based on the theories and techniques proposed in Tracy Fullerton @kinojabber.bsky.social and my book, The Well-Read Game (The MIT Press). playstorypress.org/2025/06/16/w...

The Well-Read Game: On Playing Thoughtfully Book Launch | G4C2025 Pre-Festival Session, where Tracy Fullerton @kinojabber.bsky.social and I discuss our new book with Jim Gee -- now on YouTube! youtu.be/-UMQ0mwwsq8?...

I’ll be speaking at the 22nd Games for Change Festival THIS WEEK(!)... on June 26–27 at Parsons School of Design in NYC! 🎮✨ Join me and Tracy Fullerton as we explore Reading Games Well: How Players Evoke Personal and Subjective Meanings. 👉 Grab your ticket today! bit.ly/3DCePWl