Using Technology to Support Inquiry-Based Teaching & Learning 

The most powerful part of being an educator is transforming thinking and learning. Teaching with technology allows me to empower students by helping them to grow as thinkers and creators.  



Young students are naturally inquisitive, excited to explore their world and embrace curiosity. Unfortunately, as many students get older they are faced with the pressure to think quickly, not take too many risks in the work they produce, and are often constrained by limitations of time to think through a question, project or idea.  As a result of growing class sizes and other logistical limitations, many of our students aren’t thinking as deeply or making multifaceted connections between their course content, themselves and their world.

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Technology offers diverse ways to improve students’ higher order thinking skills, facilitating their ability to ask deep questions, produce and publish professional products that can be used to educate others.

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Within the content I teach, I incorporate themes of responsible digital citizenship, teaching information literacy, while integrating real world tools, requiring students to practice current copyright and fair-use guidelines.

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I actively work with leaders in my district to modernize policies and forms to permit our teachers and students to maximize educational benefits of a variety of technologies, apps and web tools assessing how they impact student outcomes. Teaching with technology enables my students to connect, exchange ideas, asking deeper questions beyond the walls of the classroom.  

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I am excited to reinvent my teaching and learning practices while focusing on student centered inquiry, facilitated by technology.

Inquiry Based Project Previews

Experience the Sound

of Silence, 2011

Tangled Memories, 2009

Memoirs, 2007