ISLS 2026 Agenda

8:00 AM

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Short Paper · ALP 1110

Co-design, creative methods art-based approaches

Six papers explore co-design and creative methods, from tangible classroom models and arts-based climate storytelling to liberatory computational making with Black boys and trust-building in design-based research teams. Threads include reconceptualizing imagination as social practice and using network analysis to improve co-designed online graduate courses.

Embodied & Multimodal Learning in a talk

6 talks

Symposium · ALP 2300

Investigating, Understanding, and Generating Concreteness in STEM Education

A symposium examining the role of concreteness and abstraction in STEM learning, offering a critical perspective on concrete representations and a data-driven taxonomy for describing them. Contributions also present automatic generation of concrete representations and connect mathematics-education discourse to other STEM disciplines.

Embodied & Multimodal Learning

Short Paper · ALP 2700

VR/AR/MR/XR and immersive learning

A short-paper session on immersive learning across VR, AR, and mixed reality, addressing how to assess learning processes with multimodal and log data rather than pre-post tests alone. Studies span AR multispecies inquiry with bees, instructional sequencing in VR, career exploration, and mobile AR for adult language learning.

Embodied & Multimodal Learning in a talk

5 talks

10:00 AM

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Short Paper · ALP 1100

Scaffolding and design of scaffolds

Papers examine scaffolding and scaffold design, from teachers co-navigating student uncertainty in science to instructional scaffolding of interlocking models in phenomenon-driven units. Other talks cover curriculum-mediated teacher noticing in geometry simulations, personalized Parsons code puzzles, and AI designed to scaffold generative cognitive engagement.

Embodied & Multimodal Learning in a talk

5 talks

2:30 PM

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Short Paper · ALP 1120

Embodied Learning

Five short papers on how bodies, movement, and representations mediate learning across science and mathematics. Topics include walking curricula reconnecting students with nature, transnational youth and climate justice, multimodal methods for analyzing embodied geometry, domain-inherent metaphors, and diagrams that bridge real and mathematical worlds.

Embodied & Multimodal Learning in a talk

5 talks

4:15 PM

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Poster · Outdoors

ICLS Posters - Thursday Poster Session (In-Person)

An in-person poster session covering wide-ranging learning sciences research, including science and engineering teacher reasoning, AI in classrooms, and equity-oriented design in research-practice partnerships. Topics span heritage-language and algebra apps, urban gardens as educational technology, cognitive presence in MOOCs, and community-engaged research experiences.

Embodied & Multimodal Learning in a talk

91 talks