ISLS 2026
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Tuesday, June 16 · 11 sessions

2:30 PM

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Hybrid Symposium · ALP 1110

Revisiting Wise & Schwarz’s Provocations for CSCL: Partnerships for Transformation and Educational Change

Revisits Wise and Schwarz's 2017 provocations for CSCL and invites the broader learning sciences community to articulate a vision for the field's next decade. Researchers from ICLS and CSCL propose new provocations addressing the changing technological landscape and the need to center diverse perspectives in technology-enhanced collaboration.

Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning
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
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

4:30 PM

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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
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
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