Explore Like a Pirate by Michael Matera

Gamification and Game-Inspired Course Design to Engage, Enrich and Elevate Your

Create an experiential, collaborative, and creative world with classroom game designer and educator Michael Matera’s game-based learning book, eXPlore Like a Pirate. Matera helps teachers apply motivational gameplay techniques and enhance curriculum with gamification strategies.

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Are you ready to transform your classroom into an experiential work that flourishes on collaboration and creativity? Then set sail with classroom game designer and educator Michael Matera as he reveals the possibilities and power of game-based learning.

In Explore Like a PIRATE, Matera serves as your experienced guide to help you apply the most motivational techniques of gameplay to your classroom using strategies that work with and enhance (rather than replace) your current curriculum.

Part one debunks common myths and fears about gamification and explains why and how game-based learning effectively engages students in any subject or grade level.

Part two focuses on how you can empower students to take control of their learning. You’ll also learn all about the different kinds of players in your classroom – and how to inspire them to set and achieve big goals.

Part three is an all-in-one treasure chest, tool box, and field guide. Packed with ideas and examples that can be applied or adapted to any classroom – from badges and points, to mini-games and yearlong adventures – this is a resource you’ll return to again and again.

If you teach students today, you can benefit tremendously from reading "EXPlore like a Pirate" and seeking to apply its ideas in your own classroom. Michael has broken down gamification, which is often either considered on too simplistic a level or regarded as too formidable and time-consuming a task by teachers to be undertaken, and created a practical guide which is immediately applicable.

– Wesley Fryer, Ph.D., Author of Playing with Media & Show What You Know

Whether you're an enthusiast or a skeptic about the role of gamification in education, you should dive into Matera's book. His classes have inspired his students year after year, class after class, and Explore Like A Pirate helps us understand why.

– Ted Dintersmith, Author of Most Likely To Succeed

Explore Like a Pirate is a fun and practical look at how gamification can be used in the classroom. It presents gamification in a way that is fun and engaging for beginners and experts alike. It offers easy to use tips and ideas to get started with straight away. Highly recommended to anyone who wants to start using gamification in their teaching.

– Andrzej Marczewski, Gamification Expert and Author of Even Ninja Monkeys Like to Play

Explore Like a PIRATE inspires a creative and collaborative learning space grounded by powerful pedagogy.

– Jamie Brooker, Co-founder & Chief Creative Officer, Kahoot!

Turn your class into an adventure! Explore Like a Pirate is a must read for teachers looking to energize and excite their students.

– Alice Keeler, Author of 50 Things You Can Do with Google Classroom

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Author: Michael Matera
Series: Like a PIRATE Series

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