ISLS 2026 Agenda

Thursday, June 18 · 14 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.

Arts-Based & Creative Learning in a talk

6 talks

Arts Gallery & Performance · ALP 2800

#1327: Contracked: Collaborative Learning through Musical Chaos

An interactive performance in which participants co-create music by independently manipulating its elements, exploring how instant shared feedback enables both collaboration and "light conflict." The piece probes the boundaries between productive and unproductive friction in spontaneous collaborative music-making.

Arts-Based & Creative Learning

10:00 AM

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Short Paper · ALP 2700

AI Literacy, AI Tools, Teacher learning

Short papers address AI literacy, AI tools, and teacher learning, tracing teachers' evolving participation in AI education and critical AI literacy developed through design problem solving. Threads include posthuman creativity with GenAI in an Indian design workshop, redistributing cognition in AI-supported writing, and instructor scaffolding of student GenAI use.

Arts-Based & Creative Learning in a talk

6 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.

Arts-Based & Creative Learning

2:30 PM

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Long Paper · ALP 2100

Art and Politics

Four papers exploring how the arts mediate identity, perspective, and political visibility for youth and learners. Threads include perspective-shifting through filmmaking, manga as counterspaces for queer youth, the director's role in ensemble learning, and how video analysis can racialize the visibility of Black learners.

Arts-Based & Creative Learning in a talk

4 talks

Short Paper · ALP 2700

Integrating Computer Science with Science Education

Six short papers on integrating computer science and computational thinking with science, math, and special education. Threads include an umbrella review of CT-math integration, AI as a creative-computing design partner, computing for special-education contexts, quantum computational thinking, and teachers designing physical-computing and robotics units.

Arts-Based & Creative Learning in a talk

6 talks

Arts Gallery & Performance · ALP 2800

#1206: Life is a Pure Flame: Thermochromic Kirigami Lotus

An arts installation reimagines the origami lotus using thermochromic paint so each piece visibly transforms, blending Eastern symbolism with Western psychology as a ritual for reflecting on life's cycles. It offers children a hands-on cognitive activity and older participants a meditation on change and renewal.

Arts-Based & Creative Learning

Arts Gallery & Performance · ALP 3700

#1334: MOVE about it: getting groups thinking together through movement

A team of learning scientists and dancer-choreographers shares MOVE about it, a deck of movement-prompt cards from the Choreographing Science Project for sparking collective thinking through improvisational choreography. The work explores how dancing together can destabilize epistemic hierarchies and support embodied learning.

Arts-Based & Creative Learning

Arts Gallery & Performance · ALP Patio

#1363: Unlearning

An interactive gallery presents 18 original collages framing (un)learning as an active, political, communal process, with visitors invited to make their own collaborative collages. The pieces surface how learning can naturalize harmful categories and beliefs, prompting reflection on what must be unlearned and relearned.

Arts-Based & Creative Learning

Short Paper · Barclay

Co-Design, Community-based education, sociocultural learning

Six short papers examine co-design and community-engaged education across undergraduate science, minority-owned small businesses, and intergenerational environmental-justice programs. Threads include enacting solidarity in community partnerships, collaborative data co-analysis, and culturally sustaining pedagogy through game redesign.

Arts-Based & Creative Learning in a talk

6 talks

4:15 PM

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Arts Gallery & Performance · ALP 1300

#1164: Links: Conversations of Sound and Body

A live improvisational performance pairing solo piano with spontaneous movement to explore how learning emerges from relationships among sound, body, and attention. Grounded in constructionism and arts-based research, it invites participants to co-create meaning and dissolve the artist-audience boundary.

Arts-Based & Creative Learning

Demo & Interactive · ALP 1700

Demo & Interactive Session

A hands-on demo session showcasing AI-powered learning tools, including GenAI writing platforms, AI tutors for STEM and self-explanation, and teachable agents. Other demos cover collaboration analytics dashboards, agent-based modeling, VR reflection agents, and mobile creative-coding for community contexts.

Arts-Based & Creative Learning in a talk

23 talks

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.

Arts-Based & Creative Learning 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.

Arts-Based & Creative Learning in a talk

91 talks