About

Melanie McBride is a researcher at Ryerson University’s Experiential Design and Gaming Environments (EDGE) lab. See her About page for more information.
View Melanie McBride's profile on LinkedIn

Tinkering with Minecraft: Learning from the EDGE

By Melanie, on May 19th, 2011

The following post was originally published for Ryerson University’s EDGElab blog

This is a picture of learning in action. It’s what happens when you go off-road and really explore and test the limits of things and disaster becomes success. It’s also the basis for meaningful, autonomous and open ended learning and play. And the starting [...]

Gamification in the classroom (and how to stop it)

By Melanie, on March 17th, 2011

Happy as I am that some educators have recognised the value and importance of videogames for learning, I’m increasingly concerned about approaches that I think will suck the life out of gaming and play. I’ve already written about meaningful approaches to learning about and with games (which touched on gamification) but I felt a [...]

Praxis 2.0: Escaping the edu-travelogue

By Melanie, on March 5th, 2011

Remix artist Pogo’s Disney remix “Alice”

In 2009, I came across the inspiring work of self-taught Australian remix musician Nick Bertke (aka “Pogo”). As a media teacher doing remix in my own media production classes, I was interested in learning more about Pogo and his creative process. So I interviewed him about it.

What I [...]