ISLS 2026 Agenda

Wednesday, June 17 · 8 sessions

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.

Research-Practice Partnerships in a talk

6 talks

Symposium · ALP 2300

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.

Research-Practice Partnerships

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.

Research-Practice Partnerships 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.

Research-Practice Partnerships 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.

Research-Practice Partnerships in a talk

4 talks

4:15 PM

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Social / Networking · ALP 2nd Floor Rear

Mentoring Chats (prev. Coffee w/ Profs)

A networking opportunity pairing junior and senior scholars for mentorship across the learning sciences and CSCL communities. Early-career attendees can meet and learn from an established scholar in an informal setting.

Research-Practice Partnerships

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.

Research-Practice Partnerships in a talk

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.

Research-Practice Partnerships in a talk

93 talks