Studying how learners’ thinking becomes visible through text, image, movement, and AI-generated animation.

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I am a teacher–researcher based in Shenzhen working at the intersection of AI, literacies, and educational equity. In my IB Film classroom, multilingual and neurodiverse learners use low-code AI filmmaking and digital humans to plan, rehearse, and share their stories, turning the classroom into a living lab for interactive learning. 

Beyond my classroom, I collaborate with a Shenzhen AI company to design and study digital human dialogue systems that visualize students’ questions, revisions, and explanations. These tools generate dashboards from real classroom interactions, helping teachers see thinking they might otherwise miss and supporting more equitable feedback and grouping. 

Before entering education, I spent nearly a decade as an investigative journalist reporting on educational inequities, from prison college programs to under-resourced schools. That experience still guides my work through three questions: whose voices are heard, whose are missing, and what counts as evidence. 

Research interests 
AI-Mediated Expressive Computing for Making Student Thinking Visible
IB Film Teacher · Learning Sciences Researcher · EdTech Designer
My work explores how generative AI can serve as a medium for learning—
through multimodal artifacts (AI filmmaking) and interactive dialogue (digital humans).
I study how these expressive computing ecologies make student thinking visible and how teachers can use these multimodal traces to support identity, agency, and deeper learning.
→ Read my Research Agenda
→ Teaching & Design-Based Research Projects
→ AI Filmmaking Experiments
→ Digital-Human Dialogue Systems 

 

 

 Featured Talk: The Silent Classroom
 In a Shenzhen classroom, I wrote "Horror Films" on the board and asked for ideas. Instead of sketches and wild ideas, I was met with rows of silent screens and the same typed command: "Write me a horror film." That moment revealed a quiet crisis: we were using the world's most efficient tool to sideline our most precious skill—the art of questioning. 

In my TEDx talk, I share how this classroom paradox led to a pedagogy that treats AI not as an answer machine, but as a canvas for making thinking visible. It’s an exploration of how low-code AI filmmaking can turn students' questions, revisions, and hesitations into shared artifacts for dialogue, restoring curiosity in an age of instant answers. 

Please check out my new book for educators today, click the cover as below