ISLS 2026 Agenda

Friday, June 19 · 4 sessions

8:00 AM

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Short Paper · ALP 1120

Creative expressions in diverse contexts

Six short papers examine creativity and creative learning across varied settings, from university students' creative identities and contemporary-art gallery talk to designing for caring professional noticing. Additional threads cover GenAI for K-12 creativity, teaching the complexity of immigration, and Native youth's relationships with digital storytelling.

Informal, Community & Out-of-School Learning in a talk

6 talks

Short Paper · ALP 2200

Socio-emotional learning in education

Short papers on the role of emotion in learning, including shame and emotional mimicry, impostor feelings in engineering, and emotional language in math knowledge-building. Studies also analyze sentiment in parent-child STEM talk, epistemic affect in YouTube science learning, and SEL within socioscientific issues.

Informal, Community & Out-of-School Learning in a talk

6 talks

Long Paper · ALP 2300

Movement and Learning

Long papers on how bodies and movement support learning, including symbol grounding through balance, family pollinator science with mobile AR, and everyday embodied sensemaking. One talk introduces a computational platform for learning music concepts through code.

Informal, Community & Out-of-School Learning in a talk

4 talks

Short Paper · ALP 3610

Designing for Partnerships and Equity

Design-based research aimed at equity and partnership in science education, including queer-inclusive STEM curricula, dignity frameworks for multilingual learners, and funds-of-knowledge approaches. Talks also cover affective equity in research-practice partnerships, museum evaluation practice, and teacher curriculum-customization tools for sensemaking.

Informal, Community & Out-of-School Learning in a talk

6 talks