ISLS 2026
ICLS Poster

ICLS Posters - Thursday Poster Session (In-Person)

Thu Jun 18, 4:15 PM–5:45 PM · Outdoors

An in-person poster session covering wide-ranging learning sciences research, including science and engineering teacher reasoning, AI in classrooms, and equity-oriented design in research-practice partnerships. Topics span heritage-language and algebra apps, urban gardens as educational technology, cognitive presence in MOOCs, and community-engaged research experiences.

91 talks in this session

#92: Middle School Teachers' Pedagogical Reasoning about Biomimetic Engineering Design
Geling Xu, Kristen Wendell
#992: Preserving Heritage: How Diaspora Children Engage with a Persian Language Learning App
Shafagh Hadinezhad, Sourabh Garg, Sepideh Shahi, Sharifa Sultana
#986: Negotiating Power Through Interactions: A Focus on Discourse in RPPs
Taryn Williams, Christina Kimmerling, Rossella Santagata, Patricia Fuentes Acevedo
#985: Studios of Joy: Teachers Reimagining the Pedagogical Possibilities of their Elementary Classrooms
Sarah Jaewon Lee, Camille Ungco-Santos, Jessica Thompson
#983: Co-Designing a Work-Integrated Learning Pathway: Building Equitable Access to Medical Imaging Careers
Sohee Linda Lee, Anna Badua
#970: How can Prompting Students to View CS as a Problem-Solving Discipline Influence their Perceptions of its Value?
Gaeun Lee, Rabia Ibtasar, Joseph E. Michaelis
#960: Seeds in the Soil: Conceptualizing Urban Gardens as Educational Technologies
Colin Hennessy Elliott, Christopher G. Wright
#944: Exploring Science Teachers’ Artificial Intelligence (AI) Understanding and Readiness
Rawan Abdelaal, Lijun Ni, Dongni Guo
#943: Digital Unfreezing: A Framework for Epistemic Flexibility in Digital Contexts
Jiin Hur
#934: Transformative Learning in Quantitative Methods with Adaptive Equity-Oriented Pedagogy
Andrew Estrada Phuong, Judy Nguyen, Fan Huang, Carolyn Huie Hofstetter, Fabrizio D. Mejia
#911: Measuring Cognitive Presence in Online Discussions: Interpretable AI and Instructional Insights from a MOOC Context
Fengjiao Tu, Ji Hyun Yu, Haihua Chen, Junhua Ding, Liu Dong
#897: Designing for Epistemic Fluency and Local Scientific Identity: Insights from a Community-Engaged Course-Based Research Experience
Adam Papendieck, Abigail Granath, Jennifer Rudgers
#895: Connecting Global Competencies to Local Contexts: How Egyptian Teachers Interpret 21st-Century Learning
Christine Tewfik, Doha Sayed, James Slotta
#89: Democratizing Algebra: Advancing Conceptual Understanding Through Purpose-Driven Research-Practice-Industry Partnership
Tarik Buli, Amanda Wortman, Stefani Pautz Stephenson, Rebecca Banks
#88: Getting Support and Gaining Clarity: Computational Thinking Pathways Communities of Practice
Kyle M. Dunbar, Quinn Burke, Merijke Coenraad, Kelly Mills, Alessandra Rangel
#874: Student–AI Collaboration vs. Student Autonomy: Epistemic Trajectories Toward Collective Knowledge Advancement
Xueqi Feng, Jianhua Zhao, Yuqin Yang, Carol K. K. Chan
#869: Building Collaborative Infrastructure: Epistemic Growth in Early-Career Interdisciplinary Partnerships
Danielle Murphy, Alekh Velayudhan, Thomas Underwood, Jinzhi Zhou
#868: AI Use in Homework Rises with Confidence in Using It Appropriately but Varies by Gender and Cheating Concerns: A K-12 Survey Study in East Asia
Xinying Hou, Ruiwei Xiao, Qing Xiao, Hsuan Nieu, Guanze Liao
#867: Playing with Intelligence: Evolving Epistemic Criteria in a Turing Test–Like Game
Zhongyu Wang, Xiang Li, Lingfei Cao, Zhichun Liu
#862: Futures Thinking as a Pedagogical Tool: Designing Futures Thinking Professional Learning for Middle School Teachers
Ruth Wylie, Nicole Oster, Bregje van Geffen
#852: Agentic Synthesis in Professional Development: How Teachers Recontextualize Knowledge by Creating Mini-courses for Peer Teacher Learning?
Aya Isaac, Jianwei Zhang
#851: Perspectives on Co-Design for Equity: What it Means to Work with a Community
Katherine Walters
#848: Bridging the Disconnect: Relational Ontologies and the Situated Nature of Computational Thinking
Rohini Thapa, Ezra Gouvea, Shakhnoza Kayumova, Chandra Orrill, Ramprasad Balasubramanian
#511: Making Theory Visible: A Visual Model for Resource Theory and Mechanistic Reasoning
Safana Ismael, Janet L. Branchaw, Jennifer H. Doherty, Alex Waugh, Mary Pat Wenderoth
#839: Anchoring Computing in Social Studies Through Co-Designed Concept-Rich Artifacts
Adelmo Eloy, Nathan Rabinovitch, Walter Akio Goya, Paulo Blikstein
#835: Conjecture Mapping as a Tool for Transdisciplinary Research Collaboration
Heather Killen, Camden Miller, Ari Hock, Christopher Hoadley, Lauren Fischer
#811: Rivulet: A Framework and Tools for Fetching Pedagogically Generative Scientific Datasets
Michelle H. Wilkerson, Adelmo Eloy, Helen L. Fitzmaurice
#80: Unpacking Modeling-Based Learning in Kindergarten: A Micro-Level Discourse Analysis
Loucas Louca
#724: The Progression of a Research Practice Partnership from Opportunity-Based to Collaborative: Lessons from a Rural Partnership Centered on the Co-Design of STEM Curriculum
Srinjita Bhaduri, Jennifer Jacobs, Quentin Biddy
#790: The Instructional Design Process for Youth Ensemble Devising
Lisa Siciliano
#788: At the Threshold of Learning: Visual Narratives of How Students Read Belonging and Possibility in Makerspaces
Marijel Melo
#77: Developing an Approach for Evaluating Designs of Generative AI-Supported Learning
Jun Song Huang, Min Lee
#746: Disciplinary Computational Thinking in AI-Mediated Problem Framing: A Rural Ag-STEM Context
Tugce Aldemir, Selcuk Kilinc, Vivek Sabanwar, Ali Bicer, Donggil Song
#370: The Language Between Us: Using CHAT to Explore a STEM Coach-Researcher Collaborations
Jessica McClain, Jerika Miller, Linette Victor, Judi Fusco, Joshua Danish
#719: Designing Learning Environments to Absorb Social Risk
Lee Martin, Angela Booker
#718: Queering STEM: Envisioning Disruptions to Normativity
Nickolina Yankova
#714: Testing a Graph-Based Intervention to Support Belief in Climate Change: Potential Roles of Numeracy and Surprise
Rina Miyata Harsch, Vijay Marupudi, Amber Armstrong, Alyssa Kasahara, Maha El Ouaer
#698: How Networked RPPs Learn: Infrastructuring Data Loops in Developmental Planning
David Phelps, Rafi Santo, Sara Vogel, Jean Ryoo
#368: “I Didn’t Drink Any Water That Day”: Marginalized Children’s Understanding of Climate Change–Induced Water Issues in NOLA
Ayça K. Fackler, Gülçin Kaplan
#689: Negotiating the Validity of Lived Experience as a Form of Evidence
Eowyn P. Wilder, Ravit Golan Duncan, Clark A. Chinn
#68: Beyond One-Sided Arguments: Evaluating Perspective-Taking in Middle School Essays with GPT-4o and Human Scoring
Yi Song, Michael Suhan
#650: Exploring Epistemic Affect in Middle School Students’ Peer Critique
Qiuyu Lin, Ravit Duncan, Clark A. Chinn, Ava Lubin, Jinzhi Zhou
#631: When Code Shapes Scientific Language: Speaking Photosynthesis in Code
Tamar Fuhrmann, Brendan Henrique, Paulo Blikstein
#630: Choosing “Togetherness” in a Teacher-Researcher Partnership
Evra M. Baldinger
#595: Designing Equitable Partnerships for the Future of Play
Cristina Paul, Anna Terrazas, Christine Lee
#534: Can Paper be a Science Lab? Designing with “Low-Tech” Learning Tools in High-Tech Times
Eesha Ahmed, Carolina Sotério, Paulo Blikstein
#526: Speculative Futuring for Understanding River Socio-Ecology
Aakriti Bisht, Symone Gyles, Yuxi Huang, Rossella Santagata, Hosun Kang
#513: Living the Impossible: Designing Life Happens, an AI-Supported Budget and Justice Simulation
Devan Walton, Haesol Bae, Jaesung Park, Yingru Zhao, Raymond Weiss
#525: Identifying Critical Cognitive and Affective Moments During Problem Solving
Mahsa Rahmati Masouleh, Matthew Lira, Stacey McElroy-Heltzel
#523: Co-designing a Teacher Learning Community to Counter Demoralization for Early Career Elementary Teachers
Mallika Scott, Omar Bello
#518: A Preliminary Study of Digital Tool Practices and Knowledge Building in Pre-service Teacher Learning within an Emerging Technology
Yi-An Chen, Mei-Ju Chen, Yi-Ju Lin, Chao-Yu Guo, Huang-Yao Hong
#517: Games of Representation: Making the Abstract Tangible through Data Representation with Card-Based Games for Understanding AI Ethics Education
Katherine Moore, Irene Lee, Helen Zhang, Shana White, Paige Prescott
#504: Speculating, Questioning, and Interpreting: A Mixed-Methods Study of Informal Learning on a Video-Sharing Social Media Platform
Hakeoung Hannah Lee, Gi Woong Choi
#484: From Data to Meaning: Cognitive Resources for Interpreting CO2 Time-Series Graphs
Amber Armstrong, Alyssa Kasahara, Vijay Marupudi, Rina Harsch, Tristen Landeros
#477: Integrating ChatGPT into Writing for a Doctoral STEM Course
Cesar Delgado, Brayan Díaz, Stephen Trembath-Reichert, Elijah Keyes, Matthew Ferrell
#470: Metacognition, Epistemic Framing, and Knowledge Coordination: A Longitudinal Case Study of Learning in an Intro Biology Course
Alex Waugh, Aeryn Vanderslik, Safana Ismael, Sheela Vemu, Mary Pat Wenderoth
#352: What can Computer Science Education Learn from Mathematics Problem Solving Pedagogy?
Laila El-Hamamsy, Morgane Chevalier, Patrick Wang, Engin Bumbacher
#422: Interdisciplinary Contextualizing in Data Storytelling about Immigration Topics
Joseph Polman, Trang Tran, Katherine Miller, Chad Dorsey
#417: Supporting Children’s Systems Thinking about Climate Change
Qingna Jin
#397: Building Bodies, Building Minds: A Hands-On STEM Activity in Biomechanical Engineering for Elementary Students
Zahra Baradaran Shoraka, Kay E. Ramey
#39: Bridging the Gap: Using Structured Reflection to Connect Teaching Practice and the Science of Learning
Joshua Kurzweil, Suzan Kobashigawa
#382: Modular Worlds of Co-Design: Mapping Research and Practice Across the Pluralistic Field of the Learning Sciences
Riley Austin Pierce, Jonan Phillip Donaldson, Adam Papendieck, Gavin Tierney
#336: Object Trajectories: What Happens to the Things Students Make
Marina Lemée, Paulo Blikstein
#325: Small Scientists, Big Insights: What First Graders Teach Us About Science Assessment Design
Nonye Alozie, Arif Rachmatullah, Hui Yang
#297: Leveraging Play as an Entryway for Tangible Computer Science Learning Experiences in Early Childhood Settings
Jessica Blake-West, Abigail J. Bergman, Marina Umaschi Bers
#282: Teacher Perceptions of AI-Generated Feedback on Student Scientific Models
Heewoo Lee, Ha Nguyen, Troy D. Sadler
#280: Playing to Understand: Teacher Moves and Student Thinking in Nondigital Math Games
Jenny Goldberg, Rachel Lambert
#274: Leveraging AI-Powered Simulation for Transitional Care: A Pilot Study in Usability and Learning Design
Chaewon Kim, Fengfeng Ke, Tusher Chandra Mondol, Saptarshi Bhowmik, James Whyte
#267: Camp Cyber: Developing Girls’ Interest and Self-Efficacy in Cybersecurity using Generative AI
Marc Sager, Jiabao Wen, Saki Milton, Candace Walkington
#222: Teachers Bridging Technical and Reflective Stances in K–9 AI Education
Ane Vielandt Jensen, Inger Malene Surrow, Ekta Shokeen, Line Have Musaeus, Yu-Yu Liu
#218: Consequential Intergenerational Learning through Collaborative Video Game Design
Feifei Shen, Lyndsay Schaeffer, Clifford Lee
#1003: Paying Back the Cognitive Debt: Role of AI in Makerspace Learning
Yuna L. Zhang, James D. Slotta
#209: Augmenting LLMs with Knowledge Seeds for Clinical Question Generation
Lingchen Kong, William Muntean, Joe Betts
#191: A Common Language for Infrastucturing Maker Education: Mapping Stakeholder Challenges and Opportunities using a Five-Dimensional Framework
Hila Langer, Yuval Segev, Shiri Kashi, Yotam Hod
#189: Expertise in Two Dimensions: Mathematical Problem Solving with ChatGPT
Victoria Delaney, Ryan Aniceto, Katya Hernandez Holliday
#188: Boundary learning in a research-practice partnership
Etan Cohen, Hadar Baharav, Linor Hadar
#184: Superpowers and Fears: International School Teachers' Beliefs about AI in Multilingual Classrooms
Gyeongri Kim, Alina Guha, Shivani Choudhary, Shamya Karumbaiah, Esther Bettney Hedit
#177: From Resigned to Resolute: Understanding How an Emergent Writer Repositions Himself in a Flexible Assessment Context
Erica Lee Payne
#163: Understanding the Effects of LLM-Generated Conversation Initiations with Learners in Popular Science Video-Based Learning
Jingchao Fang, Qingxiaoyang Zhu, Hao-Chuan Wang
#162: Designing for Resilience as Preparation for Challenging STEM Tasks
Tanmay Sinha, Naseema Beevi, Ria Gavin Dias
#156: Reflections on Developing a Cooperative Virtual Reality Experience for a Character Education Course
Elliot Hu-Au, Jennifer Brown Urban, Mirka Feinstein, Jesse Ha, Miriam Linver
#144: Cultivating Critical Transformative Teacher Agency through Co-Design with Families toward Climate Justice
Wisam Sedawi, Angela Calabrese Barton, Batoul Abdallah, Rachel Sherwin
#132: “On the Graph They’re Talking If It Went Down or Up for the Speed. It’s Not Talking About a Half Pipe”: Authority and Dialogic Mathematics Peer Learning of Functions in 6th Grade
Fati Alipour, Alison Castro Superfine
#126: The PS-I Squared Model: Integrating Failure-driven and Success-driven Scaffolding
Shota Higuchi, Yuki Watanabe
#1175: Purpose and Paradox in India’s National Education Policy 2020: The Catch-22s of Learning Reform
Anupam Raj, Savneet Bains, Antarjot Kaur
#1123: From Toys to Tools: Collaborative Ingenuity in Learning the Requinto
Yared Portillo
#1120: Fostering Elementary School Students' Productive Disciplinary Engagement through Knowledge-Building Inquiry and Reflective Assessment
Yuqin Yang, Shufang Yang, Daner Sun, Xueqi Feng
#1082: Enhancing Early Clinical Reasoning through Generative AI-supported Self-explanation: A Design-based Research Study in Preclinical Medical Education
Xiaoyu Zhao, Kai Yu Ma, Lizayra Dassen, Marco Antonio de Carvalho Filho, Ligia Cayres Ribeiro
#1049: Bridging Rigor and Joy: The MAT Framework as a Design Model for Structured Project-Based Learning
Karishma Shanghvi, Lakshmi T G
#1031: Designing STEAM Learning PD for Early Childhood Contexts
Lora Cawelti, Alejandra Alvarez, Elin Anderson, Paul Reimer
#1006: Learning with Water: Making Nature-Culture Relations by Attending to the Sound of Water
Arjun Krishna