Research
I am interested in exploring issues of learning, culture, creativity, and ingenuity in the age of the everyday cyborg. Some of the questions generally guiding my work are: What does collaboration and distribution of expertise look like in blended/hybrid teacher education classes? What happens to language in a world where expression and representation are dominated by multimodal artifacts that blend text, image, and sound? What are (or should be) desired and necessary literacy practices of today's world? How can this digital turn can be leveraged toward liberatory aims by populations that have been historically marginalized and oppressed?
As a learning scientist, I use ethnographic, video, and multimodal research methods to investigate the role of social networks, television, and other digital new media in the education of non-dominant populations. Currently, my work examines the collaborative practices of novice teachers and adolescents at the intersection of virtual and in-person terrains of practice.
Speculative Fabulation Lab
My Speculative Fabulation Lab connects a learning and research ecology that consists of an undergraduate educational psychology teacher education course and an after-school making and tinkering club. Currently, our team consists of five doctoral students and two senior researchers whose research interests include teacher learning and practice, equity and justice in teaching and learning, multilingual and translingual issues in education, queer issues in teacher education, and AfroFuturism in learning design. The diverse experiences and expertise of our team animates a design and research agenda that centers principles of equity, sustainability, and prolepsis.
As a learning scientist, I use ethnographic, video, and multimodal research methods to investigate the role of social networks, television, and other digital new media in the education of non-dominant populations. Currently, my work examines the collaborative practices of novice teachers and adolescents at the intersection of virtual and in-person terrains of practice.
Speculative Fabulation Lab
My Speculative Fabulation Lab connects a learning and research ecology that consists of an undergraduate educational psychology teacher education course and an after-school making and tinkering club. Currently, our team consists of five doctoral students and two senior researchers whose research interests include teacher learning and practice, equity and justice in teaching and learning, multilingual and translingual issues in education, queer issues in teacher education, and AfroFuturism in learning design. The diverse experiences and expertise of our team animates a design and research agenda that centers principles of equity, sustainability, and prolepsis.
