ISLS 2026 Agenda

Tuesday, June 16 · 6 sessions

2:00 PM

1 option

Arts Gallery & Performance

Arts Gallery & Performance - Static Installations All Week

A week-long static gallery of arts-based installations exploring learning through the body, culture, materials, and emerging technology. Works span trans body politics and abolitionist imaginaries, immersive VR/AR and digital reading, and craft-based math via crochet, paper, and youth creative computing with community data art.

Climate & Environmental Education in a talk

30 talks

4:30 PM

5 options scroll

Short Paper · ALP 1110

Co-design, Teachers, RRP

Short papers on co-design, teachers, and research-practice partnerships, including environmental engineering curriculum co-design, teacher-developed critical-thinking assessments, and curricular co-design as professional development. Further talks examine teacher-researcher thought partnership, translanguaging in teacher preparation, and Black children's sociopolitical sensemaking as a resource.

Climate & Environmental Education in a talk

6 talks

Short Paper · ALP 1120

Agency, Equity, and Social Justice in Learning Sciences

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.

Climate & Environmental Education in a talk

6 talks

Symposium · ALP 1700

Telling the Spiders’ Stories: Relationship Building as Essential Infrastructuring for Climate Justice Learning

A symposium using the metaphor of spiderwebs to examine the relational work of connecting knowledge traditions, histories, and community actors for climate justice learning. Studies explore the labor of building and sustaining these networks across disciplinary and institutional boundaries, arguing such web-weaving is critical infrastructuring deserving recognition and support.

Climate & Environmental Education

Short Paper · ALP 2100

AI Literacy, AI Tools

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.

Climate & Environmental Education in a talk

6 talks

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.

Climate & Environmental Education in a talk

6 talks