ISLS 2026 Agenda

8:00 AM

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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).

Maker Education & Constructionism in a talk

11 talks

2:00 PM

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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.

Maker Education & Constructionism in a talk

30 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.

Maker Education & Constructionism in a talk

5 talks

Symposium · ALP 2nd Floor Rear

Mentorship Approaches for Establishing Communities of Practice in Constructionist Learning Spaces

A structured poster symposium on how mentorship, often peer and near-peer, supports communities of practice within constructionist learning spaces where learners create artifacts together. Drawing on diverse implementations and contexts, it considers what mentorship means, the forms it takes, and its benefits.

Maker Education & Constructionism

Long Paper · ALP 3610

Dialogue and Collaboration

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.

Maker Education & Constructionism in a talk

5 talks

4:30 PM

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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.

Maker Education & Constructionism in a talk

6 talks

Long Paper · ALP 2200

Activity System Structures and Shifts

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.

Maker Education & Constructionism in a talk

4 talks