Dr. Janette Hughes
Professor at Ontario Tech University, Faculty of Education.
I am a Professor in Digital Literacies at Ontario Tech University where I teach and conduct research in the Faculty of Education.
In 2015-2025 I was Canada Research Chair in Technology and Pedagogy and Professor in Digital Literacies.
My research and teaching interests include: critical digital literacies, digital making, adolescent literacies and identity, writing and digital media, new literacies and conceptualizations of learning, and digital citizenship.
Digital literacies encompass all conceptions of engaging in meaning-making, mediated by texts that are read, received, interpreted, produced and distributed through digital means. I am particularly interested in how digital media enable users to teach, learn, connect, collaborate, communicate, critique, create and promote social change.
Visit Janette’s personal website for more information.
Dr. Laura Morrison
Assistant Professor
Dr. Laura Morrison is an Assistant Professor at Ontario Tech University. Laura completed her Master of Arts at Ontario Tech with a focus on the impact of digital literacies skills development in the language learning process. She also completed her Education Doctorate at the University of Calgary with a focus on promising practices associated with online pre-service teacher education. Her favourite ways to communicate are through poetry, narrative and image.
Tess Butler-Ulrich
Graduate Student & Research Assistant
Tess graduated from the Bachelor of Education program at Ontario Tech University in December 2020 after receiving an undergraduate psychology degree from Nipissing University in 2017 where she spent time as a research assistant in a cognitive aging lab. As of January 2021, she began graduate studies at Ontario Tech University and is working towards a Master of Arts in Education under the supervision of Dr. Janette Hughes. Tess works as a research assistant in the STEAM-3D Maker Lab.
Her research and academic interests include digital literacies and citizenship, STEM/STEAM education, digital tools for activism and empowerment, and environmental education – especially the intersection between the environment and digital technologies.
Devin Flynn
Graduate Student & Research Assistant
Devin graduated from the Bachelor of Education program at Ontario Tech University in December 2020 after completing a Bachelor of Science in Biological Science, Life Science, minoring in Forensic Psychology at Ontario Tech University. In September 2021, he began graduate studies at Ontario Tech University. Devin works as a research assistant in the STEAM 3D Maker lab.
His research and academic interests involve STEAM education, bridging the digital divide, leveraging technologies to better support marginalized students, particularly LGBTQ2S+ students, and digital literacies.
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