Projects

2019-21 Mobility, Language, Education: Challenges in M-Learning An interdisciplinary research project that brings together specialists in applied linguistics, language education, digital literacies, e-learning, m-learning, and experimental psychology to explore, examine, document, design, and develop pedagogies for mobile language teaching and learning that utilize language-embedded interactions characteristic of contemporary multimodal digital communication.

2018-20 Missing Modalities: Learning, Communicating, and Making Sense of Aroma A joint university research initiative with Kurt Thumlert, Co-Investigator (York University Research Lead) and Jason Nolan, Principal Investigator (School of Early Childhood Studies, Ryerson University).

2018 Shifting Ground: Relocating Pedagogical Innovation from Schools to Communities This symposium brings together a group of emerging and established, local and international scholars to engage with community members, graduate students, school-based and non-formal educators, and others interested in mobilizing knowledge and exchanging research projects and practices concerned with community-based pedagogical innovation.

Up Skilling for the 21st Century: Teaching with Digital Games The primary goal of this project is to address an immediate need in the Peel District School Board (PDSB) to document existing teaching and learning practices around 21st century competencies in classrooms, to create effective professional development for teachers in innovative teaching practices, and to foster a network of creation, collaboration, and communication around transformative pedagogical practices.