ISLS 2026 Agenda

8:00 AM

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Long Paper · ALP 1700

Culturally Responsive Design

These papers show how culturally responsive and sustaining design supports learning and identity, from leveraging students' cultural resources in university physics to a robotic Punjabi Dhol for embodied music learning. Further talks examine Diné digital storytelling and relational, culturally sustaining computing with Tibetan diaspora girls.

Equity, Justice & Inclusion in a talk

4 talks

Long Paper · ALP 2600

Affect and Learning

Papers explore the affective and emotional dimensions of learning, from elementary students' embodied, lived experiences with data to configuring emotions while studying Japanese American forced incarceration. The session also addresses meta-affective goals that activate self-regulated learning and the role of affect in experts' attention to student thinking.

Equity, Justice & Inclusion in a talk

4 talks

10:00 AM

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Long Paper · ALP 1700

Speculative Education

Four long papers reimagine educational futures, including how middle school Black girls reframe surveillance through critical machine learning design and Black futures sensemaking in a future-educator course. Others derive design principles for speculative teacher imagination and examine learning at rogue conference poster sessions.

Equity, Justice & Inclusion in a talk

4 talks

Long Paper · ALP 3610

Research Practice Partnerships and Design

Four long papers examine research-practice partnerships and design, including the value of scaling science teaching slowly and a Reverse Translation framework that repositions practice as a source of knowledge. Other talks study computing education in refugee support organizations and navigating boundaries when integrating CS in elementary schools.

Equity, Justice & Inclusion in a talk

4 talks