ISLS 2026
Plenary Session ✕ Equity, Justice & Inclusion ✕ Clear filters
Friday, June 19 · 2 sessions

10:00 AM

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Plenary Session · ALP 1300

Keynote: Prolepsis ’Till Infinity : Designing STEM Futures Through Play, Media, and Imagination

Keynote by Kareem Edouard arguing that imagination is infrastructure and that play, storytelling, and design are serious forms of knowledge, especially for marginalized learners in STEAM. Drawing on his ILLEST Lab work and children's media, he examines how culturally responsive, participatory experiences build learner identity and agency.

Equity, Justice & Inclusion

12:30 PM

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Plenary Session · ALP 1300

Presidential Plenary: AI and the Learning Sciences: Perspectives from Emerging Scholars & Closing Ceremony

Presidential plenary and closing ceremony featuring six emerging international scholars in rapid-fire lightning talks on AI and the Learning Sciences. They interrogate AI through lenses of social movements, global policy, dialogic classrooms, colonial logics, and educational justice, with interactive Padlet and Turn-and-Talk participation.

Equity, Justice & Inclusion