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Projects & Publications

Using creative and collaborative methods, I design and carry out projects focused on AI, digital media, algorithm literacy, historical thinking, and the ethical and social dimensions of technology in education. My research explores how algorithms and emerging technologies shape teaching, learning, and human agency, while also examining how educators and students can critically engage with these systems. My publications have addressed AI and history education, teacher professional digital competence, algorithm literacy, social studies education, and teachers’ experiences of AI in the postdigital age. Across these projects, I am interested in moving beyond questions of whether technologies are effective to consider how they shape what is possible in educational spaces, and how teachers and students might question, resist, and reimagine those possibilities.​

My doctoral research examines teacher education in the algorithmic society, exploring how algorithmic systems shape teachers’ work, relationships, and possibilities for action, and how teachers might critically navigate, resist, and reimagine these systems. I see scholarship as a collaborative, community-focused practice that can contribute to the public good while opening possibilities for new forms of thinking, making, and engagement.

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Profaning platforms

Deactivating and reimagining digital ecosystems in education through playful misuse

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Unpacking the AI hype

Essential understandings and recommendations for social studies education

Teaching and AI in the postdigital age

Learning from teachers' perspectives

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Algorithmic futures

An analysis of teacher professional digital competence frameworks through an algorithm literacy lens.

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Why think historically when AI can do it? 

Understanding the relationship between generative artificial intelligence and history teacher identity

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Walking-Writing-Weaving

An a/r/tographic reconsideration of the human-algorithm relationship

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Close encounters

A phenomenological exploration with technological objects

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Presence, Agency, and Context

Students’ Experiences Engaging in Creative Group Processes in an Online Educational Environment

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Bridging the AI gap

Comparative analysis of AI integration, education, and outreach in academic libraries.

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University life has gone digital

Influences of institutional mobile social network use during the COVID-19 emergency

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Teachers’ sense of efficacy during a time of crisis.

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Expressions of learner agency in virtual inquiry

Linking agency and evidence-centered game design.

© 2026 by Rachel Moylan, PhD Candidate

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