76: Playing with Purpose w/ Michael Matera & John Meehan

About this episode

Michael Matera and John Meehan discuss the impact of play in education and share resources for teachers.

Playing with Purpose authors, Michael Matera and John Meehan join me to discuss the power of play in the classroom. John and Michael are experts at increasing student engagement and joy through play-based learning and gamification. Check out the incredible community they have bulit at emc2learning.com. This site houses over 1,300 incredible activities for teachers to drop right into their existing curriculum to bring it alive! Besides Playing With Purpose, they also coauthored Fully Engaged. ...

People in this episode

Host: Dave Burgess

Guests: Michael Matera, John Meehan

Topics covered

• play-based learning
• student engagement
• gamification
• education
• teacher resources

Keywords

• play
• classroom
• engagement
• gamification
• education resources

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: emc2learning.com

Books & works: Playing With Purpose, Fully Engaged

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