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Wednesday, June 17 · 26 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
Symposium · ALP 1300

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.

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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
Symposium · ALP 2300

Locating Vibes as the Felt Dimensions in Learning

This symposium theorizes 'vibes' as the felt, relational, and often unspoken dimensions of learning ecologies, arguing they are consequential for equitable learning with students from non-dominant communities. Drawing on out-of-school interactions, the papers offer a working theory of vibes, show how the colloquial term shaped intuitive pedagogy, and argue for treating vibes as a legitimate construct in the learning sciences.

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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
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.

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

#1203: #SlowLS

A video performance examining time, movement, and rest through a scholar living at the intersection of academia and chronic illness, with footage replayed at varying speeds amid campus foot traffic. #SlowLS prompts viewers to question the rushed 'two-a-year' pace of academia and how disability might help resist its pressures.

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10:00 AM

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Arts Gallery & Performance

#1244: Intergenerational Arts-based Storytelling: Fostering Solidarity Learning Toward Climate Justice

Drawing on critical participatory ethnography with Arab American immigrant youth, families, and teachers, this arts-based project frames collaborative climate-change mapmaking as intergenerational knowledge work. Attendees see participant artwork and learn how storytelling legitimized lived realities and nurtured critical consciousness for climate-justice advocacy.

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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
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
Hybrid Symposium · ALP 1300

Breaking Open the Black Box: Engaging the Sociotechnical Politics of Video Analysis

This hybrid poster symposium examines the power and politics embedded in how video data is collected and analyzed in learning sciences research. Authors offer multiple approaches to the intersection of politics and video technology, aiming to surface shared theoretical and methodological concerns through dialogue.

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Hybrid Symposium · ALP 1600

Reimagining Learning through Arts & Making: Creative Identity Work in Partnership

This hybrid symposium gathers nine projects exploring intergenerational identity development through arts and making as a basis for deeper partnership. Spanning continents and communities navigating historic oppression, the papers position creative acts as pathways of resistance, joy, and reimagining culturally grounded notions of partnership.

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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
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.

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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.

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

#1203: #SlowLS

A video performance about a scholar living at the intersection of academia and chronic illness, layering footage of the subject amid campus foot traffic at varying speeds with textual provocations. It invites attendees to question the rushed pace of academic work and whether disability can help resist its oppressive rhythms.

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2:45 PM

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Plenary Session · ALP

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

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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Social / Networking · ALP 2600

Juneteenth Book Club

A two-part book study of On Juneteenth and On Tyranny commemorating Juneteenth as an international community and connecting to the conference theme of partnering with purpose. Selected chapters ground discussion of abolitionist and liberatory projects and collective struggle against unjust forces, with paperbacks gifted to the first thirty participants.

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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 · 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.

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13 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 · 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