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Matthew Farber @docfarber.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

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...

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Nisha Devasia @nishadevasia.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

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...

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Matthew Farber @docfarber.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Thanks for your contribution!! 🤩

Matthew Farber @docfarber.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

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

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Words, Images, & Worlds: Well-Read Game Edition

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Matthew Farber @docfarber.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

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...

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The Problem Isn’t Screens. It’s That We’ve Turned Learning Into a Game No One Wants to Play - Games for Change

Camilla Zamboni @czamboni.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

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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!

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Play Story Book Talk - Roll For Learning

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Camilla Zamboni @czamboni.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

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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Matthew Farber @docfarber.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

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...

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UNC Graduate Education Virtual Info Session

Matthew Farber @docfarber.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

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.

Matthew Farber @docfarber.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

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

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Matthew Farber @docfarber.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

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

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Matthew Farber @docfarber.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

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

Matthew Farber @docfarber.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

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

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Matthew Farber @docfarber.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

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!

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Edutopia @edutopia.org · 01/11/2025

“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

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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.

Matthew Farber @docfarber.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

ICYMI Our latest post for Edutopia!

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Edutopia @edutopia.org · 29/10/2025

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”: edut.to/42UJhEE #PBL #EduSky

A student dressed as the Mandalorian stands next to a life-sized R2-D2 robot replica at a school Comic-Con event. The student wears red and black armor with a green lanyard, while people browse booths and displays in the background.

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.
A smiling student sits at a workbench surrounded by laptops, wires, and blue LED lights, working on electronics for the Comic-Con project. Another student stands nearby, and workshop tools are visible in the background.

Two students dressed in elaborate costumes sit side by side at a school Comic-Con. One wears a handmade wolf mask, fur collar, and colorful patchwork skirt, while the other wears a Marquette University shirt with a dragon mask and red cape. Paper snowflakes and a winter forest backdrop hang behind them.

Illinois Digital Educators Alliance | IDEA @ideaillinois.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

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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. ideail.org/IDEAcon2026 Lisa Moe 🔜 #SpringCUE, ‪Marcus Luther‬, Matthew Farber, Wunneanatsu #IDEAil #EduSky

Headshots of five thought leaders featured at Idea Con 2026, each framed in a green circle against a blue background with their names below.

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Matthew Farber @docfarber.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Latest for Edutopia! edut.to/4nFiKCZ

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Edutopia @edutopia.org · 26/10/2025

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

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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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Matthew Farber @docfarber.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

🎭✨ 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...

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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.

Matthew Farber @docfarber.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

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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.

MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

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"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...

Hand holding a copy of "The Well-Read Game: On Playing Thoughtfully" by Tracy Fullerton and Matthew Farber. The book features an illustration of a girl reading a book while floating in the sky. Two winged game controllers fly behind her.

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Anzal @anzal.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

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!)

An e-reader displaying the book cover for "The Well-Read Game: On Playing Thoughtfully." The cover shows a stylized animated character floating in the clouds reading a book.

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Matthew Farber @docfarber.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

My latest for Edutopia: edut.to/4fqC7gf

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Matthew Farber @docfarber.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

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...

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Well Played Journal CfP: Well Read Games – Play Story Press

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Camilla Zamboni @czamboni.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

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.

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Edutopia @edutopia.org · 14/08/2025

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

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Video Games Are a Playful Way to Guide Students to Unlock Meaning in Literature

By approaching games as texts, teachers can foster the mindset students need to appreciate great literature.

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Matthew Farber @docfarber.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

My latest for Edutopia: edut.to/4fqC7gf

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Nisha Devasia @nishadevasia.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

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...)

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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 30/07/2025

Decisions, decisions...

difficult decision meme
button one: get some writing done
button two: post memes about writing

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Matthew Farber @docfarber.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

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!

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Matthew Farber @docfarber.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

📣 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...

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Well Played Journal CfP: Well Read Games – Play Story Press

Matthew Farber @docfarber.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

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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?...

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The Well-Read Game: On Playing Thoughtfully Book Launch | G4C2025 Pre-Festival Session

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Matthew Farber @docfarber.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

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

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Matthew Farber @docfarber.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

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Well Played Journal CfP: Well Read Games – Play Story Press

Matthew Farber @docfarber.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

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The Well-Read Game: On Playing Thoughtfully Book Launch | G4C2025 Pre-Festival Session

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