Megan Cotnam-Kappel is an associate professor and specialist in the fields of Educational Technology and Minority-Language Education in the Faculty of Education. She received doctoral degrees from l’Université de Corse Pascal Paoli and the University of Ottawa. She also completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her research agenda targets the empowerment of youth and teachers through the development of their digital literacy skills. Her particular research interests include the development of skills related to the Maker movement and coding as well as digital citizenship. She is deeply committed to teaching and research that aims to close the digital use divide for minority groups across Canada.Professor Cotnam-Kappel is a member of the CHENINE team and a researcher with the Canadian Playful Schools Network (CPSN). She is the principal investigator of the Exploring the Digital Lives of Youth project.
Megan Cotnam-Kappel

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Megan
Cotnam-Kappel
Associate Professor
Associate to the Dean
Associate to the Dean
Room
LMX 336
Phone
613-562-5800 ext. 6069
Email
Journals & other
Hughes, J.,Robb, J. A., Hagerman, M. S., Laffier, J. &Cotnam-Kappel, M. (2022). What makes a maker teacher? Examining key characteristics of two maker educators, International Journal of Educational Research Open, 3, 100-118.
Hagerman, M. S., Cotnam-Kappel, M. & al. (2022). Literacies in the Making: Exploring Elementary Students’ Digital-Physical Meaning-Making Practices While Crafting Musical Instruments from Recycled Materials, Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 31, 63–84.
Shonfeld, M., Cotnam-Kappel, M. & al. (2021). Learning in Digital Environments: a Model for Cross-Cultural Alignment, Educational Technology Research and Development, 69 (4), 2151–2170.
Research interests
- Educational technology
- Digital literacy
- Minority and Francophonie studies