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. Michael started with DBC Inc. with his gamification manifesto, Explore Like a Pirate and John's first DBC book was EDrenaline Rush.