8:00 AM

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Short Paper · ALP 1110

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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.

Co-Design & Participatory Design in a talk

6 talks

Symposium · ALP 1300

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Bridging Gaps: Participatory Design as a Tool for Social Justice in Education

This symposium shows how participatory design can disrupt one-size-fits-all approaches to foster equitable, contextually relevant practices that advance social justice. Studies position immigrant teens as co-designers for civic participation, examine equitable stakeholder partnerships, co-design curricula in resource-constrained settings, and design inclusive schools for LGBTQIA+ students.

Co-Design & Participatory Design

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 1700

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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.

Co-Design & Participatory Design in a talk

4 talks

Short Paper · ALP 2500

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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.

Co-Design & Participatory Design in a talk

5 talks

Short Paper · ALP 2700

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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.

Co-Design & Participatory Design in a talk

6 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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10:00 AM

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Practice Paper · ALP 1100

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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.

Co-Design & Participatory Design in a talk

6 talks

Long Paper · ALP 1700

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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

Symposium · ALP 2300

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Relational Becoming As Global South Side Methodologies

This symposium explores community-based methodologies through the lens of relational becoming in Global South Side contexts, drawing on an ontological approach to design. Across cases in Malawi, Zimbabwe, Mexico, Denver, and China, presenters study ethnographic and participatory design processes among families, teachers, and students within local learning ecologies.

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Short Paper · ALP 2700

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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.

Co-Design & Participatory Design in a talk

6 talks

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.

Co-Design & Participatory Design in a talk

4 talks

11:45 AM

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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.

Co-Design & Participatory Design in a talk

12 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.

Co-Design & Participatory Design in a talk

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.

Co-Design & Participatory Design in a talk

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.

Co-Design & Participatory Design in a talk

13 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.

Co-Design & Participatory Design in a talk

93 talks