ISLS 2026 Agenda

Wednesday, June 17 · 13 sessions

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.

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6 talks

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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4 talks

Long Paper · ALP 3600

Embodied Mathematics and Science

These talks investigate how the body supports learning in mathematics and science, examining gesture and materiality in mechanistic explanations and how children's gestures reveal their conceptions of fractions. Other work pairs coordination class theory with fNIRS neuroimaging and aligns visual-first, embodied pedagogies to teach abstract statistical models.

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4 talks

Long Paper · ALP 3610

Supporting Learner Autonomy

Spanning methods and contexts, these papers examine how to support learner autonomy and student-centered learning, including non-linear modeling of SCL challenges and a meta-analysis of school-based ADHD interventions. Additional talks study math environments where students feel safe to be wrong, primary-source projects via network analysis, and neurodiversity-affirming responses to uncertainty.

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5 talks

10:00 AM

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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.

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6 talks

Short Paper · ALP 1120

Assessment in STEM education

Six short papers tackle STEM assessment, from evaluating the MathByExample worked-example intervention to object detection for analyzing students' drawn scientific models. Topics include NGSS-aligned assessments of first graders' reasoning, conversation-based assessment with AI agents, STEAM integration measures, and fine-grained scoring in chemistry.

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6 talks

Long Paper · ALP 2600

Out-of-school Experiential Learning

Four long papers investigate experiential learning beyond the classroom, including learner pathway analysis for STEM persistence across in- and out-of-school settings and nature-based learning motivation for students with learning differences. Additional work studies prior-knowledge use in outdoor learning and self-regulated learner profiles in flipped project-based courses.

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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.

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6 talks

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.

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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.

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93 talks