8:00 AM

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Short Paper · ALP 1100

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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 1120

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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

Symposium · ALP 1600

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Learning to Deconstruct AI/ML Systems: Scaffolds to Support Learners in Critically Evaluating AI/ML Systems

This symposium presents scaffolds that help learners critically deconstruct and evaluate AI/ML systems rather than treat them as black boxes. It draws on participatory design and case studies to foster equitable, contextually relevant practices for examining how such systems work and affect users.

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Long Paper · ALP 2100

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Collaboration Support

Four long papers explore tools and AI for supporting collaboration, including learning-analytics-augmented meta-discourse for shared epistemic agency and LLM agents that foster children's collaborative reasoning. Additional work covers augmented reality for product design in makerspaces and teacher perspectives on AI-supported collaboration in multilingual classrooms.

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4 talks

Symposium · ALP 2nd Floor Rear

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Designing AI Partner-embedded Learning Environments to Support AI Literacies

This symposium reports on the Institute of Student-AI Teaming (iSAT), which designs AI partners as social collaborators that both facilitate group learning and become objects of inquiry so students can look under the hood of AI systems. Six posters spanning AI design, infrastructure, curriculum, and teacher learning illustrate a multi-state co-design process embedding AI within classroom collaboration to build AI literacy.

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

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#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.

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10:00 AM

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Short Paper · ALP 1120

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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

Short Paper · ALP 2200

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Collaborative Learning Research Methods

Five short papers advance methods for studying collaborative learning, from reframing social annotation as a text-embedded analytics ecology to AI-powered knowledge graphs that make Knowledge Forum discourse visible. Other contributions theorize transitional space across individual and collective levels, formalize inquiry scripting, and review GenAI tools for collaboration.

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5 talks

Short Paper · ALP 2500

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Role of AI in CSCL

Five short papers interrogate AI's evolving roles in collaborative knowledge work, including students' experience of AI as a creative collaborator and a typological framework for AI's epistemic authority in Knowledge Building. Additional talks examine children's epistemic agency in AI science eBooks, activity theory for human-AI teaming, and a three-year cross-community design study.

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5 talks

Symposium · ALP 2nd Floor Rear

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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.

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Symposium · ALP 3600

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Towards a Robust Theory Toolbox for CSCL: Mechanisms, Models, and AI

This symposium argues that CSCL needs more robust theory built through formalized models, causal mechanisms, and generative AI to close the gap between theoretical positions and data. Presenters discuss computational modeling of collaborative scripts, temporal processes, and multimodal, multi-level collaboration as pathways to generalizable theory.

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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.

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4 talks

11:45 AM

1 option

Social / Networking · ALP 1600

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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.

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12 talks

1:00 PM

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Plenary Session · Barclay

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Keynote: Productive Entanglements: Shaping Learning in Rapidly Changing Technological Worlds

CSCL keynote by Alyssa Wise on how research-based learning technology can shape impact amid fast-moving edtech and AI, drawing on lessons from learning analytics. She outlines flexible coupling, human-centered design stances, and theory-guided sensemaking, plus the collective infrastructure needed to sustain them.

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2:00 PM

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Plenary Session · Barclay

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ISLS Community Meeting [Welcome]

A member-driven forum replacing the traditional business meeting, opening with a brief all-community introduction before splitting into facilitated breakout sessions. Attendees choose among topics like the future of the Annual Meeting, supporting early-career scholars, AI in publications, and hybrid engagement, with input feeding directly to the Board.

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2:45 PM

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Plenary Session · ALP

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ISLS Community Meeting [Breakout Session 1]

First round of facilitated breakout conversations in the ISLS Community Meeting, each tackling a core question for the society's future. Rooms cover the Annual Meeting, hybrid engagement, finances, governance, volunteering, AI, year-round community, early-career support, CSCL identity, and allyship against harassment.

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10 talks

3:30 PM

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Plenary Session · ALP

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ISLS Community Meeting [Breakout Session 2]

Second round of facilitated breakout conversations in the ISLS Community Meeting, letting attendees take up a different core question. Rooms again span the Annual Meeting, hybrid engagement, finances, governance, volunteering, AI, year-round community, early-career support, CSCL identity, and allyship against harassment.

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10 talks

4:15 PM

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Demo & Interactive · ALP 1700

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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.

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22 talks

Poster · Online

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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 · Online

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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.

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13 talks

Poster · Outdoors

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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.

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39 talks

Poster · Outdoors

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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