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About Dr. Cortez |
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Arturo Cortez, PhD (he/they) is a critical learning scientist and is interested in how young people and adults speculate new possible futures, opening up opportunities for building imaginary, real, and equitable worlds, while using everyday technologies. In line with this inquiry, Dr. Cortez founded The Learning To Transform (LiTT) Video Gaming Lab to help build models for equity-centered educator and student learning through the design of deeper relationships across the various learning ecologies people traverse in their everyday lives. His work has been published in Reading Research Quarterly (2024), Mind, Culture, and Activity (2023, 2019), Cognition and Instruction (2022), the Journal of Futures Studies (2022), the Association of Mexican American Educators Journal (2020), and the Review of Research in Education (2017). Furthermore, his research has been supported by the George Lucas Educational Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the Spencer Foundation. For the 2024-2025 academic year, Dr. Cortez will be a National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow. Dr. Cortez is a former public school educator and holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
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