ISLS 2026 Agenda

Thursday, June 18 · 13 sessions

8:00 AM

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Practice Paper · ALP 1100

Co-designing Teaching and Learning Experiences

Practice-oriented papers share co-designed teaching experiences across varied contexts, including wordless books for dual-language kindergarteners, community-building in online undergraduate courses, and board game design with Brownie Scouts. Other talks address climate justice instruction, metacognitive learning strategies, and research-practice partnerships in teacher education.

Maker Education & Constructionism in a talk

6 talks

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.

Maker Education & Constructionism in a talk

6 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.

Maker Education & Constructionism 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.

Maker Education & Constructionism in a talk

6 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.

Maker Education & Constructionism in a talk

6 talks

Symposium · ALP 2nd Floor Rear

Insights from International Partnerships on Infrastructuring for Maker Education

This structured poster symposium uses infrastructuring as a lens to examine the supports needed to integrate maker education into formal schooling. International research groups collaborating with local stakeholders share insights on the tensions between grassroots maker movements and established school systems.

Maker Education & Constructionism

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.

Maker Education & Constructionism 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.

Maker Education & Constructionism 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.

Maker Education & Constructionism

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.

Maker Education & Constructionism

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.

Maker Education & Constructionism 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.

Maker Education & Constructionism 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.

Maker Education & Constructionism in a talk

91 talks