Matthew Farber

Looks great! Congrats!!

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

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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!

YouTube video by The Research Left Behind The Research Left Behind, Season 2, Episode 3, ft Tracy Fullerton and Matthew Farber

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

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.

“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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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.

A student stands in a school gym during a Comic-Con event, dressed as a character wearing a handmade watering-can hat with bits of green moss, a white shirt with a large collar, olive-green suspenders, and white tights. They hold a certificate and a small gray prop, smiling for the camera. Behind them are tables, other students, and a “Cosplay Contest Signup” sign.

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

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

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

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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.

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.

🎭✨ 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.

🎭✨ 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...

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.

"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...

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.

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!)

The Well‐Read Game: On Playing Thoughtfully. By Tracy Fullerton and Matthew Farber. By Tracy Fullerton and Matthew Farber, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2025. 244 pp. $40.00 (Paperback). ISBN: 978‐0‐26‐255223‐3 Click on the article title to read more.

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.

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.

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

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.

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...

Yes! Would love to hear more!! btw Tracy and I are co-editing a special issue of Well-Played on our approach. Call for abstracts are still open :) playstorypress.org/2025/06/16/w...

Congrats!! And thx for the shout-out! :)

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...)

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

Decisions, decisions...

A New Theory of Player Response - Connected Learning Alliance In Tracy Fullerton’s and my new book, The Well-Read Game: On Playing Thoughtfully, part of The MIT Press’ Playful Thinking series, we propose a new framework of interpretive play. This framework is a ...

🚨 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...