ISLS 2026 Agenda

Wednesday, June 17 · 20 sessions

8:00 AM

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Short Paper · ALP 1110

Math education and teachers learning

Short papers address mathematics education and teacher learning, from participatory co-analysis of clinical interviews to the affective dynamics of whiteness in professional learning conversations. Other talks examine undergraduate conceptions of technology, mathematical values in algebra problem-solving, teacher sensemaking, and co-learning toward equity-oriented instruction.

Teacher Learning & Professional Development in a talk

6 talks

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.

Teacher Learning & Professional Development in a talk

4 talks

Short Paper · ALP 2500

Socio-Emotional & Group Dynamics

Five short papers examine the emotional and social side of collaboration, from team functioning and leadership in pediatric medical simulations to regulating epistemic emotions in higher- versus lower-performing CSCL groups. Other talks cover teacher learning on WhatsApp, a fifth-grade SEL digital curriculum, and boundary-crossing STEM competencies in global informal programs.

Teacher Learning & Professional Development in a talk

5 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.

Teacher Learning & Professional Development in a talk

4 talks

Short Paper · ALP 2700

Teachers learning and agency

These papers explore teacher learning, agency, and positioning, including reinterpreting project-based learning in Kazakhstan and how inclusive 'we' discourse shapes belonging in science. Further talks treat customization dilemmas, teacher positioning during student game redesign, resistance as a professional resource, and autonomy in informal learning.

Teacher Learning & Professional Development 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.

Teacher Learning & Professional Development

10:00 AM

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Practice Paper · ALP 1100

Collaborative Design Structures in Researcher and Practitioner Partnerships

Six practice papers describe how researchers and practitioners co-design educational programs, including a university laboratory school for equitable computing and a community partnership developing urban-agriculture curriculum. Cases also span co-designed embodied games for computational thinking, technology-education pathways, and designing edTech with schools rather than for them.

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6 talks

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.

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4 talks

Long Paper · ALP 2100

Peer-feedback and Assessment

Four long papers address peer feedback and assessment in collaborative settings, including an item response theory model for multiple resubmissions and how pre-service teachers integrate multiple feedback messages. Further work examines peer feedback in interdisciplinary collaboration and a design space for dialogic assessment in CSCL.

Teacher Learning & Professional Development in a talk

4 talks

Short Paper · ALP 2700

Design based research and instructional design to support learning

Six short papers report design-based research and instructional design work, including comic cons for scientific literacy and redesigning a graduate program toward learning design. Additional talks cover game-based planning for disability transition services, teacher agency in co-design, hybrid conference history, and boundary tools bridging home and classroom.

Teacher Learning & Professional Development in a talk

6 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.

Teacher Learning & Professional Development in a talk

4 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.

Teacher Learning & Professional Development

11:30 AM

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Intergenerational Diaglogue Groups

Facilitated dialogue groups connecting scholars across career stages around shared methodological and topical interests. Conversations span design-based and participatory design research, critical perspectives on AI and learning, teacher learning, and informal and out-of-school learning.

Teacher Learning & Professional Development in a talk

4 talks

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.

Teacher Learning & Professional Development in a talk

12 talks

4:15 PM

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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.

Teacher Learning & Professional Development in a talk

22 talks

Demo & Interactive · Online

Demo & Interactive Session

A short demo session featuring two prototypes: a researcher-facing dashboard that combines school records, communication data, and item responses to give insight into complex skills, and Resonate, a VR tool that lets educators experience classrooms from the perspective of students with disabilities. The pairing connects multi-source learning analytics with immersive tools for inclusive teaching.

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2 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.

Teacher Learning & Professional Development in a talk

70 talks

Poster · Online

CSCL Virtual Posters

A virtual poster session on computer-supported collaborative learning, featuring AI as a collaborative partner, adaptive support, and feedback literacy across peer, AI, and teacher sources. Methods span meta-analysis, scoping reviews, multimodal and physiological data on teamwork, teacher stress, and argumentative discourse.

Teacher Learning & Professional Development in a talk

13 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.

Teacher Learning & Professional Development 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.

Teacher Learning & Professional Development in a talk

93 talks