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Tuesday, June 16 · 26 sessions

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.

Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning 5 talks
Short Paper · ALP 1120

Learning processes in Higher education

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.

Higher Education & Undergraduate Learning 5 talks
Symposium · ALP 1300

Learning With and Against Place Towards Spatial Justice

A symposium on how learners conceptualize and engage with places, highlighting the gap between learning with a place versus about it and complicating notions of places as good or bad. Cases range from shifting ideas of a "developed" place to children resisting visions of their school as policed and communities resisting simplified representations.

Equity, Justice & Inclusion
Long Paper · ALP 1600

Teacher Learning and Technology

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.

Multilingual Learners & Language in Learning 4 talks
Hybrid Symposium · ALP 1700

Hybridity, Equity, and Conference Design: Stakeholder Perspectives & Community Discussion

A working session that gathers data and stakeholder perspectives to iterate on ISLS hybrid conference design, framing accommodation through the disability-studies idea of "curb cuts." Disabled scholars, caregivers, Majority World scholars, and organizers share experiences, followed by facilitated cross-modality breakout discussions to generate recommendations.

Equity, Justice & Inclusion
Long Paper · ALP 2600

Communities and Contexts

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.

Identity, Belonging & Learner Agency 4 talks
Short Paper · ALP 2700

Arts, Expressions, Identity

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.

Arts-Based & Creative Learning 6 talks
Long Paper · ALP 3600

Play and Games

Long papers on play, games, and young children's mathematics, including how kindergarteners negotiate teacher-designed playworlds and how teacher-child tensions during math play become sites of learning. Other talks present a three-prong framework for theory-based math games and the design of transformational games for socio-ethical reasoning about generative AI.

Mathematics Education 4 talks
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.

Informal, Community & Out-of-School Learning 5 talks

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.

STEM Education 4 talks
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.

Teacher Learning & Professional Development 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.

STEM Education 6 talks
Symposium · ALP 1300

Google, AI Literacy, and the Learning Sciences: Multiple Modes of Research, Industry, and Practice Partnerships

A symposium examining a set of AI-literacy partnership projects that all involve Google as a case study of research, practice, and industry collaboration. Through presentations and moderated discussion, it identifies where such partnerships intersect, what shapes their direction, and where new mutually beneficial configurations might emerge.

AI & Data Literacy
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.

AI & Data Literacy 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.

Equity, Justice & Inclusion 4 talks
Symposium · ALP 2300

Understanding and Supporting Teachers during Times of Transition throughout their Career

A symposium on the boundary crossings and transitions teachers experience across their careers and how these shape learning and practice. Contrasting empirical contexts and theoretical lenses help identify core characteristics of teacher transitions and how to better support educators through them.

Teacher Learning & Professional Development
Symposium · ALP 2500

From Enrichment to Essential: The Value of the Arts in Learning and Education

A symposium positioning the arts as central rather than peripheral to learning, countering funding cuts and narrow evaluation frameworks that obscure their value. Six contributions present methodological and theoretical innovations and purposeful partnerships, delivered through a participatory fishbowl and co-created emotional cartography of insights.

Arts-Based & Creative Learning
Long Paper · ALP 2600

Noticing Learning

Long papers on teacher noticing and learning, including curriculum routines that mediate tensions with a collaborative AI agent and a critical look at the politics of what counts as noticing. Other talks frame teacher learning across the multiple rhythms of learning ecologies and use speculative interaction geography to imagine embodied interactions beyond AI prediction.

Teacher Learning & Professional Development 4 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.

Systems Thinking & Complex Systems Learning 6 talks
Symposium · ALP 2nd Floor Rear

Conceptualizations and Mechanisms of Teachers’ Learning to Notice

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.

Teacher Learning & Professional Development
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.

Data Science & Data Literacy Education 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.

Teacher Learning & Professional Development 4 talks