About Me

About Me

I am a doctoral student in the ENCORE Lab at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto. My research interests include learning community pedagogy and active learning. My research relies on co-design with educational practitioners to combine teacher knowledge and learning community pedagogy to develop technology-supported activity patterns (i.e., ways for students to be a resource to one another and utilize dialogue to promote learning).

Currently, I am collaborating with a Middle School teacher to explicate the Knowledge Community and Inquiry (KCI) approach to learning community pedagogy. We are drawing on teachers' pedagogical knowledge of implementation and research-based knowledge of how learning works to design technology tools together with personalised activity scripts that support target outcomes (i.e., engagement, social-emotional learning, and co-regulated learning). Through this work, we aim to showcase, refine, and explicate the co-design within KCI and the ways in which scripts can be adaptively assigned based on student data, teacher intuition, and students' own co-regulation.  

In my free time, I enjoy playing with my puppies and spending hours lost in thought. I also like to try new things (i.e. parkour gymnastics, springboard diving, etc.) as well as visiting cafes and drinking an espresso!