ISLS 2026 Agenda

Wednesday, June 17 · 12 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 2200

Collaborative Learning Processes

Five short papers analyze how collaborative learning unfolds, using methods like Epistemic Network Analysis to model collaborative initiative in STEM simulations and multimodal interactions across jigsaw tasks. Topics range from combining intelligent tutors with concept maps and teachable agents to GenAI-supported interdisciplinary teams and age differences in older-adult learners.

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5 talks

Long Paper · ALP 3600

Embodied Mathematics and Science

These talks investigate how the body supports learning in mathematics and science, examining gesture and materiality in mechanistic explanations and how children's gestures reveal their conceptions of fractions. Other work pairs coordination class theory with fNIRS neuroimaging and aligns visual-first, embodied pedagogies to teach abstract statistical models.

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4 talks

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.

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5 talks

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

#1189: POV

An experimental 360-degree video work built from chest-mounted GoPro footage of educators conducting macroinvertebrate sampling in a Lake Erie tributary, probing the limits of video-based interaction analysis. It invites viewers to wonder about the point-of-view of non-human creatures and to sit with the unresolved messiness of wading and listening.

Multimodal & Sensor-Based Data Methods

10:00 AM

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

#1189: POV

An experimental video built from 360-degree GoPro footage of educators collecting macroinvertebrate data in a Lake Erie tributary, reworking interaction analysis to wrest point-of-view from participants into researchers' hands. It invites wondering about the perspectives of the creatures we study and embracing the messiness of wading and listening without answers.

Multimodal & Sensor-Based Data Methods

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.

Multimodal & Sensor-Based Data Methods in a talk

12 talks

4:15 PM

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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.

Multimodal & Sensor-Based Data Methods 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.

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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

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.

Multimodal & Sensor-Based Data Methods in a talk

39 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.

Multimodal & Sensor-Based Data Methods in a talk

93 talks