http://melaniemcbride.net inclusive digital learning + play Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:44:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 http://melaniemcbride.net/2008/01/26/our-data-ourselves-the-users-bill-of-rights/comment-page-1/#comment-4358 Why I Don’t Have Facebook « Lynn Norman Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:44:37 +0000 http://melaniemcbride.net/2008/01/26/our-data-ourselves-the-users-bill-of-rights/#comment-4358 [...] Anti-Facebook Movement Facebook’s Grammar of Power Our Data, Ourselves: The User’s Bill of Rights With Friends Like These… Share this:TwitterFacebookLike this:LikeBe the first to [...]

]]> http://melaniemcbride.net/2011/03/17/gamification-in-the-classroom-another-creepy-treehouse/comment-page-1/#comment-4060 Making Game Based Learning #gbl – research & principles – Learning to nurture ideas Sun, 25 Sep 2011 14:35:32 +0000 http://melaniemcbride.net/?p=1419#comment-4060 [...] a thought provoking, passionate post by educator and game research scholar @melaniemcbride on Gamification in the classroom (and how to stop it)  backed by comprehensive [...]

]]> http://melaniemcbride.net/2011/03/17/gamification-in-the-classroom-another-creepy-treehouse/comment-page-1/#comment-3499 Melanie Mon, 04 Jul 2011 00:23:41 +0000 http://melaniemcbride.net/?p=1419#comment-3499 Tim – thanks for your comments. “cutting the soul” out of gaming was precisely what inspired this post. You get it 100% if we’re going to do really cool stuff in the classroom we need to understand that part of what makes it “cool” is not the thing itself but the context in which it occurs and the nature of what makes it cool. many wonderful things in life cannot simply be relocated or contrived on cue. I won’t list the examples but I’m going to leave it to you to think of some from your experience of life … try and imagine if we attempted to situate them in the classroom, with people observing and grading it. Surrounded by people we didn’t choose to learn with. The main problem is school itself. It simply doesn’t support much of what makes learning authentic and meaningful. And like you pointed out, it’s just empty talk to say “make it meaningful” nobody can MAKE somebody else experience meaning. You either experience it or you don’t. But much teacher talk is filled with hubris anyway – the very notion of “empowering” (when there is an external actor who believes they themselves willed that empowerment rather than the subject coming to it on their own).

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