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"The negative reaction to gay characters in games isn't surprising, says Melanie McBride, an educator and games researcher at Ryerson University in Toronto. She says most commercial games "reinforce dominant hegemonic power relations." She adds that more game developers must acknowledge the imbalance in games that can be "intentionally alienating and intentionally non-inclusive" and that gamers should be more vocal about inclusion."

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"Every year I have students who struggle with the idea that players might not play their game just like they did, or who fall into the trap of “designing from should.” (As in: you SHOULD play this game, and you SHOULD play it this way.) I can tell the students who are struggling with this concept because they create “creepy treehouse” games, in the wonderful terminology of Melanie McBride."

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"She’s crazy smart and she really pushes my thinking about situated learning and gaming."

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"From an educational perspective, we can say that an ethnography of a system can expose the hidden curriculum (thanks to Jason Nolan and Melanie McBride for this connection). Or, from semiotics, it exposes hidden codes of behavior (as one of my undergraduate profs, Bart Testa noted, drawing on Barthes, we all know not to go into a restaurant and order just sauce. Why? Because we all implicitly know the code and syntax of food.)"

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Classroom2.0: Twitter, del.icio.us and participatory learning, Melanie McBride, 10 February 2008

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"McBride, Melanie. (2009, July 3). The hidden curriculum of 21st century learning. MelanieMcbride.net. Retrieved September 14, 2009, from http://melaniemcbride.net/2009/07/03/the-hidden-curriculum-of-21st-century-learning/(This article focuses on key concepts related to curriculum and literacy in a 21st Century world - greens, English majors, and History/Social Studies majors will probably enjoy this on"

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"In general, Alex and I agree with Melanie McBride, that the creepy treehouse problem is largely one of bad pedagogy. "

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"... funktioniert eben nicht nur im Takt des Stundenplans, sondern hat eigene Rhythmen. Twitter erlaubt diese Rhythmen und schafft im Idealfall eine sehr viel tiefer gehende, weil umfassendere Lernsituation." Pleil ist der Ansicht, dass Lernen mit Twitter ein Lernen auf Fachebene und soziales Lernen zusammenbringen kann. "

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"Although Melanie McBride's focus in this post is on secondary education, she has a great list of questions to spur "planning for inclusion":"

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"This presentation will be of special interest to educational administrators, communications officers and information stakeholders in schools and schoolboards"

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My Post "Authority v. Wikipedia" Why teachers are picking the wrong fight cited on the Hebrew Academy's wiki page.

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My post "Hidden Curriculum" cited in a practicum reading list.

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Citations of my Twitter overviews and "hidden curriculum" post.

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Here are some useful links to others who have used Twitter in formal learning

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In the following schedule, those items marked handout (hdt) will be supplied in class; those items marked PDF are available in the "Readings" section of the site. You must be logged in to access the "Readings" section.

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"In the midst of the legitimate cautions, Melanie McBride, an educational web-content writer, consultant and teacher, believes we should not lose sight of the positive potential of social media for students and for learning."

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