Matthew Farber
@docfarber.bsky.social
Associate Professor, University of Northern Colorado. Codirector, Gaming SEL Lab. Play theorist. NEW from The MIT Press w/ Tracy Fullerton: “The Well-Read Game” a.co/d/6oAphWV
🚨 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...
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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...
Well-Played-V15-N1-7.pdf
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Matthew Farber@docfarber.bsky.social · last yr.📣 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...
Thanks for your contribution!! 🤩
Nisha Devasia@nishadevasia.bsky.social · 4mo agoMy (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...
Excited to guest with Tracy Fullerton on the Words, Images, & Worlds podcast with Jason DeHart!!! 🤩 youtu.be/1rdyhyj3Rh4
Words, Images, & Worlds: Well-Read Game Edition
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We're on the No Such Thing podcast! Check it out! shows.acast.com/nosuchthing/...
The Well-Read Game | No Such Thing
Rethinking Learning, Reflection, and the Stories of Play
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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...
The Problem Isn’t Screens. It’s That We’ve Turned Learning Into a Game No One Wants to Play - Games for Change
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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!
Play Story Book Talk - Roll For Learning
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Our book is a Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title 2025! www.choice360.org/choice-pick/...
Outstanding Academic Titles 2025: Sports & Games - Choice 360
Read the latest list snippets from the 2025 Outstanding Academic Titles from Choice Reviews and Choice Magazine. This week Outstanding Academic Titles 2025: Sports & Games
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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
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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?...
The Research Left Behind, Season 2, Episode 3, ft Tracy Fullerton and Matthew Farber
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“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
Bringing Together Cosplay and Coding in High School
In this class, students learn engineering skills as well as costume design and event planning, culminating in a convention that’s open to the whole community.
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ICYMI Our latest post for Edutopia!
Edutopia@edutopia.org · 11mo ago“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
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
Illinois Digital Educators Alliance | IDEA@ideaillinois.bsky.social · 11mo agoWe 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
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
Bringing Together Cosplay and Coding in High School
In this class, students learn engineering skills as well as costume design and event planning, culminating in a convention that’s open to the whole community.
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🎭✨ 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...
Bringing Together Cosplay and Coding in High School
In this class, students learn engineering skills as well as costume design and event planning, culminating in a convention that’s open to the whole community.
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