ISLS 2026 Agenda

Thursday, June 18 · 10 sessions

8:00 AM

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Hybrid Symposium · ALP 1600

Evaluating and assessing learning in AI-embedded environments: perspectives across learning scientists

A hybrid poster symposium of eight studies framing evaluation of AI-supported learning as a relational, ethical practice rather than a matter of technical accuracy. Across classrooms, tutoring, and teacher coaching, researchers use discourse analytics, video analysis, and practical measures to examine AI's effects on collaboration, belonging, and cognition through human-centered, equity-oriented design.

Human-AI Collaboration & Teaming

Short Paper · ALP 2200

Innovative Design for Learning

A short-paper session on designing innovative learning environments, spanning embodied game-based math, collaborative argumentation amid misinformation, and shared feedback visualization in simulation debriefing. Several papers examine generative-AI chatbots in computing education, from technology acceptance to effects on fifth graders' computational thinking.

Human-AI Collaboration & Teaming in a talk

5 talks

10:00 AM

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Long Paper · ALP 2100

Collaboration with AI

Papers investigate human-AI collaboration in learning, comparing peer versus AI assistance in graph theory and examining cognitive, social, and metacognitive dimensions of student-student-LLM problem solving. Other talks design multi-agent AI systems and use deliberately biased chatbots to prepare teachers for collaboration.

Human-AI Collaboration & Teaming in a talk

4 talks

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.

Human-AI Collaboration & Teaming in a talk

6 talks

2:30 PM

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Short Paper · ALP 1110

AI tools, interactions, and design

Six short papers on designing AI tools and understanding human-AI interaction in learning. Topics include AI's effect on the writing process, hybrid-intelligence and human-in-the-loop systems, four years of AI formative assessment and fairness, conversation-based assessment with AI agents, and new interfaces for AI-supported writing.

Human-AI Collaboration & Teaming in a talk

6 talks

Long Paper · ALP 2600

Epistemic Authority and Agency

Four papers examining how authority and agency are distributed among students, teachers, and AI tools during learning. Threads include authority in elementary science modeling, how students remix AI chatbots into dialogic tools, epistemic agency in student-LLM math problem solving, and analytics-supported reflective assessment for pre-service teachers.

Human-AI Collaboration & Teaming 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.

Human-AI Collaboration & Teaming in a talk

6 talks

Symposium · ALP 3600

Rise Above State-of-the-Art: Designing New Possibilities of GenAI for Knowledge Building

This symposium presents seven contributions on how Generative AI can enrich human-AI collaboration for Knowledge Building, moving beyond 'learning from AI' toward collaborative creation and learner epistemic agency. Designs span dialogic and integrated approaches across contexts from doctoral interdisciplinary research to K-12 classrooms.

Human-AI Collaboration & Teaming

4:15 PM

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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.

Human-AI Collaboration & Teaming in a talk

23 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.

Human-AI Collaboration & Teaming in a talk

91 talks