ISLS 2026 Agenda

Tuesday, June 16 · 4 sessions

4:30 PM

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Long Paper · ALP 1100

Analyzing Student Explanations

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.

Epistemic Cognition & Argumentation in a talk

4 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.

Epistemic Cognition & Argumentation in a talk

4 talks

Long Paper · ALP 3600

Data Literacy and Computational Thinking

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.

Epistemic Cognition & Argumentation in a talk

4 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.

Epistemic Cognition & Argumentation in a talk

4 talks