Workshops
I offer professional development workshops on AI and education, digital literacy, algorithmic media, digital technologies, teaching social studies in an increasingly digital world, and more. Designed for K–12 teachers, my workshops explore how these topics can be meaningfully integrated across subject areas and grade levels. I emphasize practical strategies that help teachers connect the study of emerging technologies to their existing curricula while creating opportunities for students to engage thoughtfully with a complex digital world.
Interested in booking an in-person or online workshop at your school or institution? Contact me for details.
Selected Past Workshops
Teaching about AI in social studies education
Social Studies Education Winter Professional Development Conference (2026, February 13)
The University of British Columbia
Description: Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is has quickly become deeply embedded in our social institutions and everyday lives. While GenAI may seem unprecedented and inevitable, this is not the case. This workshop givessocial studies teachers an opportunity to explore the history, social implications, and technical functionality of GenAI. We will discuss possibilities and methods for integrating the study of GenAI and other digital technologies into social studies education to help students build their capacities for making AI-related decisions in their own lives.
Creating 'zones of indistinction' through educational research
Tech and Resistance Seminar Series (2025, September 29)
University of Copenhagen
Description: Digital platform ecosystems increasingly shape how teachers and students work, learn, and think in schools. This session explores how educators might create space to question these systems and imagine alternative possibilities. Drawing on the philosophy of Giorgio Agamben (1998, 2007), I describe an educational research methodology that creates ‘zones of indistinction’ through deliberate and playful misuse of digital technologies. Developed through research with secondary teachers in British Columbia, Canada, this approach opened space to reconsider established assumptions about what is possible in educational settings and to engage productively with the tensions between technological rules and creative possibilities.
Unpacking learning analytics: Ethical implications and considerations
Learning Design and Digital Innovation Summer Institute (2025, July 17)
The University of British Columbia
Description: Learning analytics are increasingly used to collect, interpret, and act on data about students’ learning, engagement, and behaviour. This workshop invites educators to consider the ethical questions that arise when student online activity becomes data. Through practical examples and collaborative discussion, teachers will explore issues of privacy, surveillance, bias, consent, interpretation, and student agency. Participants will develop strategies for critically evaluating learning analytics tools and considering when, why, and how student data should be used to support learning.
Algorithm literacy and educational technologies (with M. Samokishyn)
British Columbia Teaching and Learning Council (2025, April 11)
Description: This workshop introduced educators to the concept of algorithm literacy and explored how algorithms shape the digital tools, platforms, and information environments that increasingly mediate teaching and learning. Participants considered how educational technologies influence what teachers and students see, know, and do, and examined the ethical, pedagogical, and practical implications of these systems. Through discussion and reflection, the workshop invited educators to move beyond simply using educational technologies effectively toward asking critical questions about how these technologies work, whose interests they serve, and how they might shape student agency.
Teaching and learning in the age of AI
Collingwood School, West Vancouver, BC (2023, August 29)
Description: With the recent release of ChatGPT, generative AI is rapidly changing conversations about teaching, learning, and assessment. This workshop provides secondary teachers with a foundational understanding of generative AI, including how tools like ChatGPT work and what they can and cannot do. Through hands-on exploration and discussion, participants will consider potential applications in the classroom alongside emerging questions about academic integrity, assessment, student learning, and the role of teachers in an increasingly AI-enabled world.
Learner agency and algorithm literacy (with J. Code and K. Forde)
Science World STEAM Days of Summer, Vancouver, BC (2022, August 23)
Description: This workshop explores how algorithms shape the digital environments in which students learn, communicate, and make decisions. Educators consider the relationship between algorithmic systems and learner agency, examining how students can develop the knowledge and confidence to recognize, question, and navigate the forces that influence what they encounter online. The session offers practical approaches for helping students become more critical and intentional users of digital technologies while maintaining their capacity to make independent choices and exercise judgment.
How to foster creativity and better learning experiences from group work (with C. Conrad)
Centre for Learning and Teaching (2021, May 16)
Dalhousie University
Description: In this workshop, university instructors explore methods for designing group work that moves beyond simply dividing up tasks to create richer opportunities for collaboration, creativity, and learning. Participants consider how the structure of group activities, classroom environments, and instructor facilitation can shape students’ experiences of working together, and explore practical strategies for designing group work that encourages meaningful participation, diverse perspectives, and creative thinking.