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Wednesday, June 17 · 9 sessions

8:00 AM

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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.

Co-Design & Participatory Design
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.

Equity, Justice & Inclusion
Symposium · ALP 2nd Floor Rear

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.

AI & Data Literacy

10:00 AM

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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.

Discourse Analysis & Video-Based Methods
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.

Arts-Based & Creative Learning
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.

Indigenous, Decolonial & Global South Perspectives
Symposium · ALP 2nd Floor Rear

Artificial Intelligence and Human Purposes: Dialogues about Creativity and Control

This interactive poster symposium connects research on AI's role in creativity with research on control, contexts often placed in opposition. Studies span formal education, after-school and summer programs, community workshops, and performing arts, fostering a cautious but hopeful conversation about AI's ethics and potential.

AI in Education
Symposium · ALP 3600

Towards a Robust Theory Toolbox for CSCL: Mechanisms, Models, and AI

This symposium argues that CSCL needs more robust theory built through formalized models, causal mechanisms, and generative AI to close the gap between theoretical positions and data. Presenters discuss computational modeling of collaborative scripts, temporal processes, and multimodal, multi-level collaboration as pathways to generalizable theory.

Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning