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Henry jenkins provost professor at university of southern california. The process for gamifying both your classroom and your lessons. Were also hosting a giveaway contest of his new book gamify your classroom revised edition. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. This book is a field guide on how to implement gamebased learning and gamification techniques to everyday teaching. Matthew farber s gamify your classroom is the definitive guide to gamebased learning. Farber is a former classroom teacher who led the way in bringing games to the classroom, as an academic on the topic and as an author about the. Associate professor in the department of communication and media games and simulation arts and sciences at rensselaer polytechnic institute. This is a guest post contributed by teacher matthew farber. Look for the new, expanded edition of his book, gamify your classroom. Meticulously researched and featuring insights from a host of educators and game designers, as well as his own enthusiastic adventures in the classroom, matthew farbers book is an impressive. Civic participation among seventhgrade social studies students in multiuser virtual environments. Dodge teacher fellowship and a woodrow wilson historyquest fellowship.
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