P-12

• Blended learning
• Classroom technology
• Digital divide
• Early learning
• Education technology
• Hispanic students
• Language acquisition
• Low-income students
• Minority students
• Online learning
• Parent involvement

José Ramón Lizárraga is a graduate student researcher and instructor at the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Education, where he helps coordinate efforts of the University-Community Links program and is a member of the MacArthur Foundation’s Connected Learning Research Network. Lizárraga researches the role of digital media in the education of Latinos. His publications include the recent co-authored report, “Digital Media and Latino Families: New Channels for Learning, Parenting, and Organizing,” published by the Joan Ganz Cooney Center in 2015. Lizárraga also recently co-authored a book chapter in Multilingual Learners and Academic Literacies: Sociocultural Contexts of Literacy Development in Adolescents titled, “Translingual Literacies in a Social Media Age: Lessons Learned from Youth’s Transnational Communication Online.” He is research director of Xóchitl Justice Press and an advisory board member of Academia Cultural. Lizárraga holds a master’s degree in education from Stanford University.