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Wednesday, June 17 · 21 sessions

8:00 AM

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Arts Gallery & Performance

#1184: Looking Through the Lens: How Youth Practice Perspective-Shifting Through Filmmaking

A screening of four youth-produced short films from Spy Hop's Voices of the West media intensive in Utah, paired with research on how young filmmakers practice perspective-shifting. The selected works span a documentary, a YouTube-tutorial parody, an anxiety-themed narrative, and a nostalgic piece on community spaces.

Arts-Based & Creative Learning
Short Paper · ALP 1120

AI tools, Teacher Learning

Short papers map how teachers learn to use and reason about AI, from archetypes in designing multi-agent instructional workflows to STEM educators' confidence and knowledge of AI. Others weigh teachers' hopes and concerns about AI image generation and analyze instructor attitudes toward cheating with AI.

Arts-Based & Creative Learning in a talk
4 talks
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.

Arts-Based & Creative Learning in a talk
4 talks
Arts Gallery & Performance · ALP 2800

#1315: A Live Magic Show to Introduce Magic a Pedagogy for Creativity

An interactive live magic show demonstrating how magic can be used as a pedagogy for creativity and design thinking. Through performances with narrative explanation, it shows how watching, learning, and performing magic promotes flexible thinking and user-centered creative design.

Arts-Based & Creative Learning
Arts Gallery & Performance · Screening Room / Theatre (1070 McCormick Screening Room)

#1245: Dreams of Blindness

A VR documentary and participatory installation drawing on interviews with 22 visually impaired participants in China, using AI-assisted processes to translate their dream narratives into non-visual sensory visualizations. A companion Dream Book invites viewers to record their own dreams, opening reflection on disability, perception, and assumptions about blindness.

Arts-Based & Creative Learning
Arts Gallery & Performance · Screening Room / Theatre (1070 McCormick Screening Room)

#1332: Listening for Learning in Students’ Art from a Children’s Hospital School

An arts gallery presentation by an interdisciplinary artist-educator on listening for learning in children's art created within a children's hospital school. The work explores inclusive, adaptive arts education for pediatric patients and how fleeting experiences can be translated into tangible visual forms.

Arts-Based & Creative Learning

10:00 AM

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Arts Gallery & Performance

#1184: Looking Through the Lens: How Youth Practice Perspective-Shifting Through Filmmaking

Four short films from Spy Hop's "Voices of the West" media-production intensive in Utah showcase how youth filmmakers make multimodal artistic decisions while shifting perspective. The selection spans a documentary on a local restaurant, a parody YouTube tutorial subverting the superhero genre, a film on anxiety from social media, and a nostalgic piece on a community movie theater.

Arts-Based & Creative Learning
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.

Arts-Based & Creative Learning
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.

Arts-Based & Creative Learning in a talk
6 talks
Hybrid Symposium · ALP 1600

Reimagining Learning through Arts & Making: Creative Identity Work in Partnership

This hybrid symposium gathers nine projects exploring intergenerational identity development through arts and making as a basis for deeper partnership. Spanning continents and communities navigating historic oppression, the papers position creative acts as pathways of resistance, joy, and reimagining culturally grounded notions of partnership.

Arts-Based & Creative Learning
Symposium · ALP 2nd Floor Rear

Artificial Intelligence and Human Purposes: Dialogues about Creativity and Control

This interactive poster symposium connects research on AI's role in creativity with research on control, contexts often placed in opposition. Studies span formal education, after-school and summer programs, community workshops, and performing arts, fostering a cautious but hopeful conversation about AI's ethics and potential.

Arts-Based & Creative Learning
Arts Gallery & Performance · ALP Patio

#1336: Intersect: A Mixed Media Collage Series

A mixed-media collage series that treats artmaking as collaboration with unruly materials, advancing a posthumanist, distributed view of agency among bodies, ideas, and matter. Created by a disabled, chronically-ill scholar-artist, the work reframes the 'flawed' or 'ruined' and explores how arts can support critical consciousness and radical hope in science and engineering.

Arts-Based & Creative Learning
Arts Gallery & Performance · Screening Room / Theatre (1070 McCormick Screening Room)

#1332: Listening for Learning in Students’ Art from a Children’s Hospital School

An exhibition of student art from a children's hospital school, accompanying research on integrating arts education into pediatric settings through inclusive, adaptive approaches. The artist's own practice spans drawing, photography, sculpture, and digital fabrication, often dissolving printed images to evoke memory and emerging meaning.

Arts-Based & Creative Learning

11:45 AM

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Social / Networking · ALP 1600

Ignite Talks I

A fast-paced set of Ignite talks featuring auto-advancing slides on emerging ideas and works-in-progress across the learning sciences. Threads include AI in classrooms and teams, joy and wellbeing pedagogies, neurodivergent and inclusive learning, computational thinking, and arts-based methods such as dance and game design.

Arts-Based & Creative Learning in a talk
12 talks

4:15 PM

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Arts Gallery & Performance · ALP 1360

#1368: “On the fly”: A collaborative game for musical improvisation

"On the Fly" is a card-and-dice game that supports musicians in practicing collaborative improvisation through generative constraints, asking players to improvise performances that enact contours shown on cards. It functions at once as a performance format, a pedagogical tool, and a research instrument for theorizing how improvisation is learned.

Arts-Based & Creative Learning
Arts Gallery & Performance · ALP 1360

#1360: Shaunk, a robotic cultural instrument

A design-based study of Shaunk, a robotic Dhol co-designed with music instructors and used in an after-school program for middle and high schoolers. Mixed-methods analysis links embodied interaction with the instrument to gains in practice time, task completion, and engagement, yielding design principles for culturally responsive computing.

Arts-Based & Creative Learning
Demo & Interactive · ALP 1700

Demo & Interactive Session

A demo session showcasing interactive prototypes, with a strong emphasis on generative-AI tools for self-regulated learning, AI literacy, and coaching, alongside immersive technologies such as olfactory VR and mixed-reality simulations. Other demos cover block-based quantum computing, Jupyter notebooks for K-12 educators, music and topological analytics tools.

Arts-Based & Creative Learning in a talk
22 talks
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.

Arts-Based & Creative Learning in a talk
70 talks
Poster · Outdoors

CSCL Posters - Wednesday Poster Session (In-Person)

In-person CSCL poster session dominated by generative AI in collaborative learning, from teacher-in-the-loop essay scoring and AI lesson-planning to constrained GenAI for deeper learning and agency. Other posters cover multimodal and NLP methods for assessing collaboration, conversational agents in shared reading, and AI tools in arts learning.

Arts-Based & Creative Learning in a talk
39 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.

Arts-Based & Creative Learning in a talk
93 talks