ISLS 2026 Agenda

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Pre-Con. Workshop · ALP

Pre-Conference Workshops - Half Day

Half-day pre-conference workshops centered on AI's impact across CSCL and learning sciences research, alongside career sessions and the doctoral consortium. Threads include rethinking assessment in the generative AI era, co-designing AI for collaboration and agency, building a shared CSCL taxonomy, and hands-on interaction network analysis (HINA).

Knowledge Building & Knowledge Creation in a talk

11 talks

2:30 PM

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Short Paper · ALP 1100

Collaborative learning with sociocultural considerations

Short papers on collaborative learning shaped by cultural and social context, from board-game redesign grounded in distributed cognition and culturally relevant pedagogy to belonging for minority computer science students. Several examine partnership-based work, including student-AI problem-solving, cross-disciplinary mentorship, and a 16-year Japanese lesson-study RPP.

Knowledge Building & Knowledge Creation in a talk

5 talks

Long Paper · ALP 2100

Knowledge Advancement

Long papers advancing methods and theory for collaborative knowledge building and convergence. Contributions include transitional spaces between group and individual learning, NLP-based semantic analysis of discourse, multimodal reflective assessment of socio-emotional interaction, and quantifying convergence via word-abstractness change detection.

Knowledge Building & Knowledge Creation in a talk

4 talks

Short Paper · ALP 2500

Support for Collaborative Learning

Short papers on tools and designs that scaffold collaborative learning, with a strong emphasis on self- and socially-shared regulation. Approaches include TA awareness of pre-class reports, game-based simulations like MetaSim, generative-AI chatbots and the MIRACLE multi-agent system, plus a scoping review of AI-supported knowledge creation.

Knowledge Building & Knowledge Creation in a talk

5 talks

4:30 PM

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Short Paper · ALP 2700

Complex Systems

Short papers applying complex-systems and network perspectives to learning, from higher-order network analysis of PISA data to a complexity-informed model for educating creators. Other talks examine students' difficulties with dynamic equilibrium, systems thinking via the Venus flytrap, online course ecologies, and causal reasoning through drawing.

Knowledge Building & Knowledge Creation in a talk

6 talks

Long Paper · ALP 3610

Teacher Learning and AI

Four papers examine how teachers develop AI literacy and capacity, from an activity-theoretical study of why educators disengage from building AI agents to Knowledge Building professional development through design thinking. Other talks propose a socio-cognitive framework for K-8 AI literacy and analyze shared epistemic agency when teachers co-plan AI-integrated lessons with generative tools.

Knowledge Building & Knowledge Creation in a talk

4 talks