ISLS 2026 Agenda

Wednesday, June 17 · 15 sessions

8:00 AM

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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.

Neurodiversity, Disability & Accessibility in a talk

5 talks

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

#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.

Neurodiversity, Disability & Accessibility

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

#1332: Listening for Learning in Students’ Art from a Children’s Hospital School

An arts gallery presentation by an interdisciplinary artist-educator on listening for learning in children's art created within a children's hospital school. The work explores inclusive, adaptive arts education for pediatric patients and how fleeting experiences can be translated into tangible visual forms.

Neurodiversity, Disability & Accessibility

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.

Neurodiversity, Disability & Accessibility

10:00 AM

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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.

Neurodiversity, Disability & Accessibility 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.

Neurodiversity, Disability & Accessibility in a talk

6 talks

Arts Gallery & Performance · ALP Patio

#1336: Intersect: A Mixed Media Collage Series

A mixed-media collage series that treats artmaking as collaboration with unruly materials, advancing a posthumanist, distributed view of agency among bodies, ideas, and matter. Created by a disabled, chronically-ill scholar-artist, the work reframes the 'flawed' or 'ruined' and explores how arts can support critical consciousness and radical hope in science and engineering.

Neurodiversity, Disability & Accessibility

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

#1332: Listening for Learning in Students’ Art from a Children’s Hospital School

An exhibition of student art from a children's hospital school, accompanying research on integrating arts education into pediatric settings through inclusive, adaptive approaches. The artist's own practice spans drawing, photography, sculpture, and digital fabrication, often dissolving printed images to evoke memory and emerging meaning.

Neurodiversity, Disability & Accessibility

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.

Neurodiversity, Disability & Accessibility

11:45 AM

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Social / Networking · ALP 1600

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.

Neurodiversity, Disability & Accessibility in a talk

12 talks

4:15 PM

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Demo & Interactive · ALP 1700

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.

Neurodiversity, Disability & Accessibility in a talk

22 talks

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.

Neurodiversity, Disability & Accessibility in a talk

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.

Neurodiversity, Disability & Accessibility in a talk

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.

Neurodiversity, Disability & Accessibility in a talk

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.

Neurodiversity, Disability & Accessibility in a talk

93 talks