ISLS 2026 Agenda

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).

Research-Practice Partnerships 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.

Research-Practice Partnerships 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.

Research-Practice Partnerships 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.

Research-Practice Partnerships in a talk

4 talks

4:30 PM

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Short Paper · ALP 1110

Co-design, Teachers, RRP

Short papers on co-design, teachers, and research-practice partnerships, including environmental engineering curriculum co-design, teacher-developed critical-thinking assessments, and curricular co-design as professional development. Further talks examine teacher-researcher thought partnership, translanguaging in teacher preparation, and Black children's sociopolitical sensemaking as a resource.

Research-Practice Partnerships in a talk

6 talks

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.

Research-Practice Partnerships

Symposium · ALP 1700

Telling the Spiders’ Stories: Relationship Building as Essential Infrastructuring for Climate Justice Learning

A symposium using the metaphor of spiderwebs to examine the relational work of connecting knowledge traditions, histories, and community actors for climate justice learning. Studies explore the labor of building and sustaining these networks across disciplinary and institutional boundaries, arguing such web-weaving is critical infrastructuring deserving recognition and support.

Research-Practice Partnerships