ISLS 2026 Agenda

Tuesday, June 16 · 6 sessions

2:30 PM

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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.

Discourse Analysis & Video-Based Methods in a talk

4 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.

Discourse Analysis & Video-Based Methods in a talk

5 talks

Long Paper · ALP 2600

Communities and Contexts

Long papers examining learning across communities and contexts, from high schoolers cultivating future-oriented identities to digital accountability in new-teacher mentoring dialogue. Additional work probes youth authority in environmental engineering curriculum co-design and reconceptualizes psychometrics to treat context as intrinsic to learning.

Discourse Analysis & Video-Based Methods in a talk

4 talks

Long Paper · ALP 3600

Play and Games

Long papers on play, games, and young children's mathematics, including how kindergarteners negotiate teacher-designed playworlds and how teacher-child tensions during math play become sites of learning. Other talks present a three-prong framework for theory-based math games and the design of transformational games for socio-ethical reasoning about generative AI.

Discourse Analysis & Video-Based Methods in a talk

4 talks

4:30 PM

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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.

Discourse Analysis & Video-Based Methods in a talk

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.

Discourse Analysis & Video-Based Methods in a talk

6 talks