Short papers on learning processes in higher education, spanning engineering improvisation under uncertainty, support for first-generation biology students, and curiosity and metacognition in productive failure. Others examine primary source projects in undergraduate math and fair measurement of metacognitive regulation in online STEM.
Long papers on how technology supports teaching and assessment, with attention to multilingual learners and analytics. Topics include AI scaffolds for multilingual science inquiry, a four-step formative assessment cycle, flexible primary-language use in EdTech, and a temporal learning-engagement analytics framework.
Long papers examining learning across communities and contexts, from high schoolers cultivating future-oriented identities to digital accountability in new-teacher mentoring dialogue. Additional work probes youth authority in environmental engineering curriculum co-design and reconceptualizes psychometrics to treat context as intrinsic to learning.
Short papers exploring how the arts support identity work, wellness, and disciplinary learning, from artmaking with youth and non-judgmental art pedagogy to reconstructing disabled identities in undergraduate courses. Other talks link art-making to computational thinking, integrate arts with science teaching, and examine trans* body politics in sport.
Papers on dialogue and collaboration across varied settings, including relational attunement in making, medical students shifting from cooperation to true collaboration, and parents revoicing to guide children's computational thinking. Further talks examine how language shapes access to tools and how productive confusion unfolds during VR collaboration.
Researchers analyze how students articulate and develop their reasoning across science and math, drawing on knowledge-in-pieces and responsive teaching to trace intuitive resources in electromagnetism and evolution. The session also covers participation in optional self-explanation tasks and NGSS-aligned formative assessments that make first graders' life-science reasoning visible.
Short papers on agency, equity, and social justice in learning, including epistemic engagement in multilingual science, rule-breaking as a design affordance, and frameworks for hands-on open science in K-5. Other talks trace racialized assemblages in AP biology, recognition for minoritized STEM instructors, and infrastructuring for climate justice in making.
Short papers on AI literacy and AI tools across learners and educators, from students' mental models shaping epistemic cognition of AI results to teachers' feedback strategies with intelligent tutoring systems. Other talks cover teachers' uptake of AI in climate education, neural-network simulations for educators, AI literacy with children, and bibliometric trends in STEM.
Using activity theory and CHAT, these papers trace how learning systems shift and are structured across out-of-school STEM, district AI capacity-building, classroom makerspaces, and medical simulation. Threads include brokering family engagement, peer networks for K-12 AI, student-driven sociocultural change, and epistemic justice in standardized-patient training.
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.
A poster symposium on how science and mathematics teachers learn to notice, the construct of teacher attention, interpretation, and decision-making amid classroom complexity. The session compares how "learning to notice" is conceptualized and unpacks the mechanisms that drive it.
Long papers on data literacy and computational thinking, from comparing how students engage data practices in agricultural STEM to exploring spatiotemporal data through a space-time cube interface. Additional work operationalizes epistemic data agency at a data-storytelling camp and uses paper-based aids to support computational problem-solving with robotics.