ISLS 2026 Agenda

8:00 AM

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Short Paper · ALP 1100

Maker educations

These maker-education papers examine identity, literacy, and collaboration across making contexts, including crafting and engineering identities, collaborative lore-building between marginalized girls, and computational literacies in an agricultural class. Additional talks probe what multimodal AI sees versus facilitator expertise, reflection quality and self-efficacy, and sustainable 3D clay printing.

Climate & Environmental Education in a talk

6 talks

Arts Gallery & Performance · Screening Room / Theatre (1070 McCormick Screening Room)

#1189: POV

An experimental 360-degree video work built from chest-mounted GoPro footage of educators conducting macroinvertebrate sampling in a Lake Erie tributary, probing the limits of video-based interaction analysis. It invites viewers to wonder about the point-of-view of non-human creatures and to sit with the unresolved messiness of wading and listening.

Climate & Environmental Education

10:00 AM

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Arts Gallery & Performance

#1244: Intergenerational Arts-based Storytelling: Fostering Solidarity Learning Toward Climate Justice

Drawing on critical participatory ethnography with Arab American immigrant youth, families, and teachers, this arts-based project frames collaborative climate-change mapmaking as intergenerational knowledge work. Attendees see participant artwork and learn how storytelling legitimized lived realities and nurtured critical consciousness for climate-justice advocacy.

Climate & Environmental Education

Short Paper · ALP 1110

Place and land-based learning and education across various modalities

Six short papers explore place- and land-based learning across modalities, including spatial typologies for active-learning classrooms and syncretic game designs interweaving virtual and natural worlds. Others address youth climate storytelling, multispecies discomfort in a STEAM program, identity play through creek science, and scientific practice in an archaeological apprenticeship.

Climate & Environmental Education in a talk

6 talks

Arts Gallery & Performance · Screening Room / Theatre (1070 McCormick Screening Room)

#1189: POV

An experimental video built from 360-degree GoPro footage of educators collecting macroinvertebrate data in a Lake Erie tributary, reworking interaction analysis to wrest point-of-view from participants into researchers' hands. It invites wondering about the perspectives of the creatures we study and embracing the messiness of wading and listening without answers.

Climate & Environmental Education

4:15 PM

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Poster · Online

ICLS Virtual Posters - Virtual Poster Session

A virtual poster session covering a wide range of learning-sciences topics, including making and aesthetics, computational thinking and creative coding, and culturally responsive STEAM across international contexts. Studies also examine generative-AI policies and student-LLM reasoning, field trips, and physics teacher professional development.

Climate & Environmental Education in a talk

70 talks

Poster · Outdoors

ICLS Posters - Wednesday Poster Session (In-Person)

An in-person poster session spanning equity-oriented learning across STEM, computing, and the arts, with threads on multilingual and culturally responsive teaching, integrated STEM+C and AI literacy, and teacher learning in makerspaces and curricular customization. Settings range from family garden activities and afterschool math to climate-change pedagogy and preservice teacher preparation.

Climate & Environmental Education in a talk

93 talks