ISLS 2026
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Friday, June 19 · 12 sessions

8:00 AM

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Short Paper · ALP 1100

Human computer interaction and cognitive issues

Short papers on human-computer interaction in learning, including linguistic cues in human versus AI feedback, gesture-based heritage-language literacy, and real-time metacognitive feedback. Several talks design AI partners and multi-agent systems supporting self-regulated learning and metacognitive calibration.

AI in Education 6 talks
Short Paper · ALP 1110

AI Literacy, Ethical and Critical Issues

Six short papers explore how learners build AI literacy and grapple with ethical and critical issues around AI. Topics include learning AI through game and chatbot design, hallucination awareness, how children's books portray AI, responsible GenAI use in STEM internships, and AI storytelling with Black girls.

AI & Data Literacy 6 talks
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.

Arts-Based & Creative Learning 6 talks
Hybrid Symposium · ALP 1300

Queer and Trans Theories as Praxis: Analyzing Power and Designing for Learning Toward Justice

A structured poster symposium engaging queer and trans theories as praxis for analyzing power and designing justice-oriented learning. Six papers span early childhood classrooms, community design spaces, arts-based learning, computational simulations, and parental-rights discourse, foregrounding desire, embodiment, and affect in learning.

Equity, Justice & Inclusion
Long Paper · ALP 1700

Learner Interactions with AI Agents

Long papers examining how learners and teachers perceive and interact with AI agents, including shifting mental models of statistics tutors and science-lab chatbots. Studies also cover AI chatbots for teacher reflection and how anthropomorphic digital-human teachers affect cognitive engagement, measured via eye-tracking.

AI in Education 4 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.

Motivation, Emotion & Engagement 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.

Embodied & Multimodal Learning 4 talks
Short Paper · ALP 2500

Multiple Meanings and Contexts of Play and Playfulness in the Learning Sciences

Talks examining play, silliness, and embodiment as productive forces in learning across math, computational thinking, and science. Topics range from robot-coding toys for multiplicative reasoning and decomposition, to humor in inquiry group work, embodied circulatory-system activities, and in-game learning supports.

Early Childhood & Elementary Learning 6 talks
Short Paper · ALP 2600

Climate change and environmental education

Five short papers address climate and environmental education, including school-based climate activism, sustaining eco-hope amid eco-anxiety, and students' critical reasoning about climate information. Others examine teachers' expansive explanations of environmental justice and their framing of science topics.

Climate & Environmental Education 5 talks
Short Paper · ALP 2700

Negotiating epistemology and sensemaking

Short papers on how students and children negotiate what counts as scientific knowledge, spanning explanation construction, epistemic disagreements in high school classrooms, and trust in scientific evidence. Talks also examine identity cues in STEM, support spaces in Japanese schools, and a model integrating behaviorism, cognitivism, and constructivism.

STEM Education 6 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.

Equity, Justice & Inclusion 6 talks