ISLS 2026 Agenda

Thursday, June 18 · 11 sessions

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.

Indigenous, Decolonial & Global South Perspectives in a talk

6 talks

Symposium · ALP 2nd Floor Rear

Broadening the Boundaries of the Learning Sciences: Reclaiming the Territory of Latin American Contributions to Educational Research

This symposium reimagines the Learning Sciences through Latin American epistemologies, weaving studies of Mapuche weaving mathematics, Uruguayan rural futures, and WhatsApp organizing at the Mexico-US border. Empirical work across Colombia, Ecuador, and beyond puts constructionism, ethnomathematics, and decolonial speculation in dialogue with field theories.

Indigenous, Decolonial & Global South Perspectives

Short Paper · ALP 3600

Humanities, Civics, and Learning

A short-paper session on humanities, civics, and learning, examining ethical sensemaking, informal learning, and political contestation across global contexts. Topics include mobile-phone learning among Jamaican farmers, children's more-than-human ethical reasoning, young activists comparing the Holocaust to current wars, and school change in India.

Indigenous, Decolonial & Global South Perspectives in a talk

4 talks

Long Paper · ALP 3610

Environmental Learning and Sustainability

Four papers address environmental learning and sustainability, including relational trust in community-engaged environmental justice partnerships and a comparative case of youth reducing food waste in schools. Threads also cover a transition-design workshop on sustainable futures and co-design routines centering community knowledge in the Indian Himalayas.

Indigenous, Decolonial & Global South Perspectives in a talk

4 talks

10:00 AM

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Short Paper · ALP 1110

Data Literacy and Data Science Education

Papers on data literacy and data science education range from students creating biometric data visualizations to confronting coloniality and Indigenous food sovereignty in data science. Threads include youth conceptions of data, a roleplay-based curriculum embedding epistemological pluralism, and epistemic practices in an online fitness community.

Indigenous, Decolonial & Global South Perspectives in a talk

6 talks

Hybrid Symposium · ALP 1600

Learning Sciences in the Global South: Dialogue for multiple ways of knowing and doing

This hybrid symposium argues for multiplicity in ways of knowing and doing, drawing on cases from Latin America, Africa, and South Asia where scholars adapt and expand conventional research. The stories foreground tensions and (in)visible privileges in Global South scholarship, with dialogue continuing during and after the conference.

Indigenous, Decolonial & Global South Perspectives

Long Paper · ALP 1700

Epistemic Cognition

Long papers on epistemic cognition examine how learners coordinate knowledge and evaluate sources, including physics students' math-concept integration and high schoolers' epistemic vigilance toward everyday science. Additional talks cover epistemic navigation in a unit on Traditional Chinese Medicine and how laypeople resolve expert disagreement.

Indigenous, Decolonial & Global South Perspectives in a talk

4 talks

Arts Gallery & Performance · ALP Patio

#1392: Acting School and the Art of Unlearning

A performance and reflection from actor, teaching artist, and scholar Kailea Saplan on the connections between theatre, education, and the learning sciences. Drawing on a background spanning a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction and MFA acting training, it considers how the arts can foster curiosity, compassion, and diversity in how we educate.

Indigenous, Decolonial & Global South Perspectives

1:00 PM

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Plenary Session · Barclay

Keynote: “I hear your vibes”: Partnering in the Moment to Moment of Activity

Keynote by Dr. Ananda Marin tracing her work in community-based design research and co-design alongside Indigenous families and improvisational jazz artists, organized around purpose, place, power, and equity. She argues that sociocultural theories of learning can be expanded by Indigenous Studies and Black and Indigenous scholarship foregrounding kinship, relationality, and reciprocity.

Indigenous, Decolonial & Global South Perspectives

4:15 PM

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Poster · Outdoors

CSCL Posters - Thursday Poster Session (In-Person)

An in-person poster session spanning collaborative learning research, with strong threads on AI literacy games, epistemic agency, and knowledge building alongside SEL, VR and maker collaboration, and equity-focused design. Studies range from a Turing-test game and weaving-based ML curricula to ceremonial Indigenous designs and belonging infrastructure in research-practice partnerships.

Indigenous, Decolonial & Global South Perspectives in a talk

19 talks

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.

Indigenous, Decolonial & Global South Perspectives in a talk

91 talks