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Melanie McBride is a researcher at Ryerson University’s Experiential Design and Gaming Environments (EDGE) lab. See her About page for more information.
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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 [...]

Noobing it up in minecraft: survival, making, sharing

By Melanie, on March 23rd, 2011

“In search of diamonds” Blocky mix (minecraft machinima)

Last week I finally got around to playing the lavatacular 8-bit sandbox PC game Minecraft! In addition to having lots of fun, I’m also thinking all the great forms of learning it engages.  Bryan Alexander, was among the first to identify the educational virtues of the game’s [...]