ISLS 2026 Agenda

Tuesday, June 16 · 15 sessions

8:00 AM

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Pre-Con. Workshop · ALP

Pre-Conference Workshops - Half Day

Half-day pre-conference workshops centered on AI's impact across CSCL and learning sciences research, alongside career sessions and the doctoral consortium. Threads include rethinking assessment in the generative AI era, co-designing AI for collaboration and agency, building a shared CSCL taxonomy, and hands-on interaction network analysis (HINA).

AI in Education in a talk

11 talks

2:00 PM

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Arts Gallery & Performance

Arts Gallery & Performance - Static Installations All Week

A week-long static gallery of arts-based installations exploring learning through the body, culture, materials, and emerging technology. Works span trans body politics and abolitionist imaginaries, immersive VR/AR and digital reading, and craft-based math via crochet, paper, and youth creative computing with community data art.

AI in Education in a talk

30 talks

2:30 PM

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Short Paper · ALP 1100

Collaborative learning with sociocultural considerations

Short papers on collaborative learning shaped by cultural and social context, from board-game redesign grounded in distributed cognition and culturally relevant pedagogy to belonging for minority computer science students. Several examine partnership-based work, including student-AI problem-solving, cross-disciplinary mentorship, and a 16-year Japanese lesson-study RPP.

AI in Education in a talk

5 talks

Hybrid Symposium · ALP 1110

Revisiting Wise & Schwarz’s Provocations for CSCL: Partnerships for Transformation and Educational Change

Revisits Wise and Schwarz's 2017 provocations for CSCL and invites the broader learning sciences community to articulate a vision for the field's next decade. Researchers from ICLS and CSCL propose new provocations addressing the changing technological landscape and the need to center diverse perspectives in technology-enhanced collaboration.

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Long Paper · ALP 1600

Teacher Learning and Technology

Long papers on how technology supports teaching and assessment, with attention to multilingual learners and analytics. Topics include AI scaffolds for multilingual science inquiry, a four-step formative assessment cycle, flexible primary-language use in EdTech, and a temporal learning-engagement analytics framework.

AI in Education in a talk

4 talks

Long Paper · ALP 2100

Knowledge Advancement

Long papers advancing methods and theory for collaborative knowledge building and convergence. Contributions include transitional spaces between group and individual learning, NLP-based semantic analysis of discourse, multimodal reflective assessment of socio-emotional interaction, and quantifying convergence via word-abstractness change detection.

AI in Education in a talk

4 talks

Short Paper · ALP 2200

AI Human Interaction

Short papers on how learners interact with AI across higher education and accessible STEM contexts. Topics include student-AI relationships and shared agency, generative AI for design iteration, accessible games for blind and low-vision learners, and AI-enabled dialogic leadership training.

AI in Education in a talk

5 talks

Short Paper · ALP 2500

Support for Collaborative Learning

Short papers on tools and designs that scaffold collaborative learning, with a strong emphasis on self- and socially-shared regulation. Approaches include TA awareness of pre-class reports, game-based simulations like MetaSim, generative-AI chatbots and the MIRACLE multi-agent system, plus a scoping review of AI-supported knowledge creation.

AI in Education in a talk

5 talks

4:30 PM

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Symposium · ALP 1300

Google, AI Literacy, and the Learning Sciences: Multiple Modes of Research, Industry, and Practice Partnerships

A symposium examining a set of AI-literacy partnership projects that all involve Google as a case study of research, practice, and industry collaboration. Through presentations and moderated discussion, it identifies where such partnerships intersect, what shapes their direction, and where new mutually beneficial configurations might emerge.

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ALP 1600

CSCL Invited Symposium

A plenary symposium reframing AI's disruption of learning through human-AI complementarity, the idea that people and AI systems contribute distinct, interdependent strengths. Spanning sociotechnical design, collaborative learning, cognitive augmentation, and AI ethics, it asks how hybrid collaboration can amplify human judgment and how tools and policies must change for equitable interdependence.

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Short Paper · ALP 2100

AI Literacy, AI Tools

Short papers on AI literacy and AI tools across learners and educators, from students' mental models shaping epistemic cognition of AI results to teachers' feedback strategies with intelligent tutoring systems. Other talks cover teachers' uptake of AI in climate education, neural-network simulations for educators, AI literacy with children, and bibliometric trends in STEM.

AI in Education in a talk

6 talks

Long Paper · ALP 2600

Noticing Learning

Long papers on teacher noticing and learning, including curriculum routines that mediate tensions with a collaborative AI agent and a critical look at the politics of what counts as noticing. Other talks frame teacher learning across the multiple rhythms of learning ecologies and use speculative interaction geography to imagine embodied interactions beyond AI prediction.

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4 talks

Short Paper · ALP 2700

Complex Systems

Short papers applying complex-systems and network perspectives to learning, from higher-order network analysis of PISA data to a complexity-informed model for educating creators. Other talks examine students' difficulties with dynamic equilibrium, systems thinking via the Venus flytrap, online course ecologies, and causal reasoning through drawing.

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6 talks

Long Paper · ALP 3600

Data Literacy and Computational Thinking

Long papers on data literacy and computational thinking, from comparing how students engage data practices in agricultural STEM to exploring spatiotemporal data through a space-time cube interface. Additional work operationalizes epistemic data agency at a data-storytelling camp and uses paper-based aids to support computational problem-solving with robotics.

AI in Education in a talk

4 talks

Long Paper · ALP 3610

Teacher Learning and AI

Four papers examine how teachers develop AI literacy and capacity, from an activity-theoretical study of why educators disengage from building AI agents to Knowledge Building professional development through design thinking. Other talks propose a socio-cognitive framework for K-8 AI literacy and analyze shared epistemic agency when teachers co-plan AI-integrated lessons with generative tools.

AI in Education in a talk

4 talks