He has over 20 years of experience helping teachers integrate emerging technologies in meaningful ways while working at K-12 schools and in various roles as a doctoral student and university professor. His teaching and research interests focus on new literacies and creative thinking, increasingly essential skills and strategies needed to teach, learn, and work successfully in a largely Web–mediated world. Recent published work in the Teachers College Record provides a foundational theory for teaching and research related to new literacy skills that support creative thinking, while related work in the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy focuses on how educators can begin to scaffold Web-mediated knowledge synthesis.