8:00 AM

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Short Paper · ALP 1110

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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.

Co-Design & Participatory Design in a talk

6 talks

Hybrid Symposium · ALP 1600

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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.

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Long Paper · ALP 3610

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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.

Co-Design & Participatory Design in a talk

4 talks

10:00 AM

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Long Paper · ALP 1700

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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.

Co-Design & Participatory Design in a talk

4 talks

Short Paper · ALP 2200

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Collaborative STEM Inquiry

Short papers on collaborative STEM inquiry span engineering notebooks scaffolding middle school robotics, multi-user immersive VR for science learning, and collaboration quality in computational modeling. Threads also include teacher knowledge building via KNILT minicourses and ordered-network-analysis-supported reflective assessment.

Co-Design & Participatory Design in a talk

5 talks

Symposium · ALP 2300

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Co-design as Transformative Pedagogical Spaces: what zooming out teaches us about learning to co-design together

This symposium gathers researchers and practitioners across participatory design, youth participatory action research, and research-practice partnerships to challenge how co-design is treated as brief, isolated activity. By zooming out temporally and analytically, the papers reveal co-design as relational, political, and ethical practice honed over longer timescales.

Co-Design & Participatory Design

Short Paper · ALP 2500

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Perceptions of Innovation and Change

Papers examine perceptions of innovation and change, with several analyzing teacher and STEM-educator sentiments about generative AI through social media discourse on X and Reddit. Other talks cover participatory design for AI in teacher education, reconceptualizing conversational AI as a learning medium, and NGSS implementation.

Co-Design & Participatory Design in a talk

5 talks

Long Paper · ALP 2600

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Dialogic Conversation and Pre-Service Teachers

Long papers focus on pre-service teachers and dialogic conversation, including science teachers rehearsing questioning with AI-based and VR classroom simulators. Other talks examine an AI-feedback co-design intervention for math tutors' productive talk and learning-analytics-supported reflective assessment for knowledge building.

Co-Design & Participatory Design in a talk

4 talks

12:00 PM

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ALP 1700

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Brown Bag Lunch -- Partnerships with Purpose: Listening to the Voices of Partners

A brown-bag panel centering the voices of youth, teachers, and community partners who have collaborated with researchers, reflecting on what makes partnerships meaningful and what undermines them. Panelists from a high school, an outdoor-education program, and university research teams discuss what they wish researchers understood about working in authentic, respectful ways.

Co-Design & Participatory Design

1:00 PM

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Plenary Session · Barclay

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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.

Co-Design & Participatory Design

2:30 PM

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ALP 1100

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Invited Panel: Humanizing Institutional Landscapes of Ability Differences and Learning

An invited dialogic panel on how schools, universities, and community spaces construct or challenge ability differences and disability in relation to race, language, and culture. Panelists share artifacts from four participatory design projects spanning bilingual and special education, multi-generational college classrooms with formerly incarcerated students, and research-practice partnerships toward culturally sustaining, asset-based approaches.

Co-Design & Participatory Design

Short Paper · ALP 1110

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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.

Co-Design & Participatory Design in a talk

6 talks

Short Paper · ALP 1120

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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.

Co-Design & Participatory Design in a talk

5 talks

Long Paper · ALP 1700

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Teacher Transformation

Four papers on how teachers become agents of transformation through partnerships, mentoring, and boundary crossing. Cases include a composite counterstory of teacher change, science educators reconciling personal beliefs with official scripts, cohort-based research-practice partnerships, and high-coupling encounters bridging maritime and education communities.

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4 talks

Long Paper · ALP 2300

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AI and Ethics

Four papers on teaching and studying AI ethics across age groups and methods. Approaches include a literature review of AI ethics in ISLS proceedings, tabletop and scenario-based games for fostering multidimensional and ethical thinking, and laddering methodology for surfacing young children's values in design.

Co-Design & Participatory Design in a talk

4 talks

Long Paper · ALP 3610

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Computer Science Education

Four papers on how programming environments and AI are reshaping computer science education. Topics include balancing usability and expressiveness in block-based modeling, Parsons puzzles paired with self-explanation, teachers' shifting conceptions of AI/ML and algorithmic justice, and norms around when copying code is acceptable.

Co-Design & Participatory Design in a talk

4 talks

Short Paper · Barclay

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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.

Co-Design & Participatory Design in a talk

6 talks

4:15 PM

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Demo & Interactive · ALP 1700

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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.

Co-Design & Participatory Design in a talk

23 talks

Poster · Outdoors

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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.

Co-Design & Participatory Design in a talk

19 talks

Poster · Outdoors

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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.

Co-Design & Participatory Design in a talk

91 talks