ISLS 2026 Agenda

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.

Early Childhood & Elementary Learning in a talk

6 talks

Short Paper · ALP 2700

VR/AR/MR/XR and immersive learning

A short-paper session on immersive learning across VR, AR, and mixed reality, addressing how to assess learning processes with multimodal and log data rather than pre-post tests alone. Studies span AR multispecies inquiry with bees, instructional sequencing in VR, career exploration, and mobile AR for adult language learning.

Early Childhood & Elementary Learning in a talk

5 talks

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.

Early Childhood & Elementary Learning in a talk

4 talks

10:00 AM

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Short Paper · ALP 1100

Scaffolding and design of scaffolds

Papers examine scaffolding and scaffold design, from teachers co-navigating student uncertainty in science to instructional scaffolding of interlocking models in phenomenon-driven units. Other talks cover curriculum-mediated teacher noticing in geometry simulations, personalized Parsons code puzzles, and AI designed to scaffold generative cognitive engagement.

Early Childhood & Elementary Learning in a talk

5 talks

2:30 PM

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Long Paper · ALP 2200

Regulation and Support

Four long papers use multimodal data to study how emotions and teacher support are regulated during collaborative learning. Topics range from emotion regulation in student dyads building computational models to teacher orchestration load, proximity effects, and scaffolding via classroom chatbots.

Early Childhood & Elementary Learning in a talk

4 talks

Long Paper · ALP 2300

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.

Early Childhood & Elementary Learning in a talk

4 talks

Long Paper · ALP 3610

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.

Early Childhood & Elementary Learning in a talk

4 talks

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.

Early Childhood & Elementary 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.

Early Childhood & Elementary 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.

Early Childhood & Elementary Learning in a talk

91 talks