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Fleming Building, Room 400E
University of Colorado Boulder
249 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309
José Ramón Lizárraga is Assistant Professor of Learning Sciences and Human Development at the University of Colorado, Boulder. As a learning scientist, José uses ethnographic, video, and multimodal research methods to investigate the role of social networks, television, and other digital new media in the learning of teachers and youth. Currently, his work examines the cyborg collaborative practices of teachers and adolescents at the intersection of virtual and in-person terrains of practice.
Lizárraga is an experienced designer and instructor of hybrid/blended (online/in-person) and online undergraduate and graduate teacher education courses. He has taught these courses at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Education, San Francisco State University's Department of Secondary Education and Graduate College of Education, and currently at CU Boulder's School of Education. José is also a practicing visual artist and musician. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Distinction from the California College of the Arts, a Master of Arts in Education from Stanford University, and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.
José, along with his partner Arturo Cortez, are collectors of Latinx and Chicanx art and their collection includes work by Judy Baca, Jesus Barraza, Enrique Chagoya, Melanie Cervantes, Gronk, Patsy Valdez, and John Valadez, to name a few. They are also parents of celebrity chihuahua RuPawl, the world’s first Doggie Drag Queen.