Matthew Farber

eBook, ePUB

Gamify Your Classroom (eBook, ePUB)

A Field Guide to Game-Based Learning - Revised edition

Beschreibung

This completely revised and expanded field guide is packed with new innovative ideas on how to implement game-based learning and gamification techniques in everyday teaching. With nearly two dozen more experts than the first edition, this book contains interviews with more than 70 authorities in the field, including academics such as James Paul Gee, Kurt Squire, Mizuko (Mimi) Ito, Lee Sheldon, Jordan Shapiro, and Mary Flanagan. The author also shares conversations with experts from numerous organizations such as Common Sense Media, iCivics, DragonBox, Connected Camps, GlassLab Games, Schell Games, Institute of Play, Games for Change, BrainPOP, Tiggly, Toca Boca, ThinkFun, BrainQuake, Filament Games, BreakoutEDU, Kahoot, Classcraft, and more. Featuring a new introduction, as well as a foreword from USA Today's national K-12 education writer Greg Toppo, this book provides new practical lesson plan ideas, ready-to-use games, and links for further research in each updated chapter. Included are best practice recommendations from star game-based learning teachers, including Steve Isaacs, Peggy Sheehy, Michael Matera, Rafranz Davis, Zack Gilbert, and Paul Darvasi. Regardless of your teaching discipline or grade level, whether you are new to game-based learning or if you have experience and want to take a deeper dive, this book will engage and reinvigorate the way you teach and how your students learn!

Technische Details

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• Größe: 1.77MB

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

Matthew Farber, EdD is a social studies teacher at Valleyview Middle School in Denville, New Jersey. He is also an adjunct instructor, Edutopia blogger, and cohost on Ed Got Game on the BAM Radio Network. Dr. Farber was a recipient of a Geraldine R. Dodge Teacher Fellowship, a Woodrow Wilson HistoryQuest Fellowship, and is a Certified BrainPOP Educator. He lives in New Jersey with his wife, Laura, son, Spencer, and playful Weimaraner dog, Lizzie. To learn more, visit: MatthewFarber.com.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781433138836
• Artikelnr.: 53494361

Rezensionen

«Walk into Matthew Farber's middle school classroom and you'll meet students who consider themselves beta testers of innovative learning experiences. You'll see an inspired teacher who understands how to combine cutting-edge game mechanics with instructional strategies like project-based learning. I haven't had the pleasure of that classroom visit just yet, but reading 'Gamify Your Classroom' is the next best thing. Farber, as author, shares his own journey into understanding the power of games for learning. He invites readers along as he interviews experts and learns from those on the frontiers of this exciting space. Then he brings us back to the magic circle of the classroom, where games create teachable moments for engaged, inspired

learners.» (Suzie Boss, Author of 'Bringing Innovation to School'; national faculty member, Buck Institute for Education)
«'Gamify Your Classroom' is a clear-headed dissection of the semantic muddle and self-serving hype surrounding game-based learning and gamification. Meticulously researched and featuring insights from a host of educators and game designers, as well as his own enthusiastic adventures in the classroom, Matthew Farber's book is an impressive primer, revealing what works and what doesn't out here on education's exciting new frontier.» (Lee Sheldon, Author of 'The Multiplayer Classroom'; Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Media Games and Simulation Arts and Sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)