José Ramón Lizárraga
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Research

I am interested in exploring issues of learning, culture, creativity, and ingenuity in the age of the everyday cyborg. Some of the questions generally guiding my work are: What does collaboration and distribution of expertise look like in blended/hybrid classes? What is the role of AI and ML in teaching and learning? What happens to language in a world where expression and representation are dominated by multimodal artifacts that blend text, image, and sound? What are (or should be) desired and necessary literacy practices of today's world? How can this digital turn can be leveraged toward liberatory aims by populations that have been historically marginalized and oppressed? 

As a learning scientist, I use ethnographic, video, and multimodal research methods to investigate the role of social networks, television, and other digital new media in the education of non-dominant populations. Currently, my work examines the collaborative practices of novice teachers and adolescents at the intersection of virtual and in-person terrains of practice.


Speculative Fabulation Lab


My Speculative Fabulation Lab connects a learning and research ecology that consists of an undergraduate educational psychology teacher education course and an after-school making and tinkering club. 


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