Faculty, researchers, and graduate students from the College of Education and Human Development’s Department of Educational Psychology (Ed Psych) and Department of Curriculum and Instruction (C&I)—as well as the American Indian Studies Department (AIS) in the College of Liberal Arts—will present at the International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS), June 19-23 in Nashville, Tennessee. ICLS brings together researchers focused on issues of learning, with a special interest in work that highlights the sociopolitical dimensions of learning and social justice.
Faculty and researcher presenters
- Jeffrey Bye, instructor and researcher, Ed Psych, Institute of Child Development (ICD), and Research Methodology Consulting Center (RMCC)
- Bodong Chen, associate professor, Bonnie Westby Huebner Chair in Education and Technology, C&I
- David DeLiema, assistant professor, Ed Psych
- Meixi Ng, UMN Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow, AIS
- Cassandra Scharber, associate professor, C&I
- Keisha Varma, associate vice provost, Office of Equity and Diversity, associate professor, Ed Psych
Graduate student presenters
- Abdirashid Abdi, PhD student, C&I
- Yu-Hui Chang, PhD student, C&I
- David Groos, PhD alumnus, C&I
- Elena Gullickson, PhD student, C&I
- Isabel Lopez, PhD student, Ed Psych
- Tayler Loiselle, PhD student, Ed Psych
- Fan Ouyang, PhD alumnus, C&I
- Corissa Rohloff, PhD student, Ed Psych
- Hong Shui, PhD student, C&I
- Jesslyn Valerie, PhD student, Ed Psych
Accepted ICLS presentations and descriptions
Bye, J. K., Chuang, P.-J., Anthony, L. E., & Cheng, P. W. (accepted). Teaching the purpose and meaning of algebraic variables through systems-of-equations story problems: Multimedia approaches. In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS). International Society of the Learning Sciences.
Chen, B., Shui, H., & Haklev, S. (accepted). Designing orchestration support for collaboration and knowledge flows in a knowledge community. In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS). International Society of the Learning Sciences.
Chen, B., Chang, Y.-H., & Groos, D. (accepted). Bridging public discourse and knowledge building discourse in science classrooms with the IdeaMagnets tool. In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS). International Society of the Learning Sciences.
Contreas, E., Varma, K., Student Voice and Student Choice: Middle School Science Teachers Foster Identity Using a Social Learning Environment. In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS). International Society of the Learning Sciences.
DeLiema, D., & Dahn, M. (accepted). Envisioning debugging cultures at the intersection of emotion, problem solving, and identity: Portraits of three girl coders. In the Proceedings of the 15th International Conference of the Learning Sciences. Nashville: International Society of the Learning Sciences.
Elliott, C. H., Radke, S., DeLiema, D., Silvis, D., Vogelstein, L. (accepted). Whose video?: Surveying implications for participants’ engagement in video recording practices in ethnographic research. In the Proceedings of the 15th International Conference of the Learning Sciences. Nashville: International Society of the Learning Sciences.
DeLiema, D., Sharma, G., Valerie, J., Cabrera, A., & Smith, S. (accepted). Temporal and geographical features of programming substrates: Navigating code structure, behavior, and function during debugging. In the Proceedings of the 15th International Conference of the Learning Sciences. Nashville: International Society of the Learning Sciences.
Fong, M., Aalst, O. W-V., Flood, V., & DeLiema, D. (accepted). When features become bugs: Stance-taking around refactoring in a coding classroom. In the Proceedings of the 15th International Conference of the Learning Sciences. Nashville: International Society of the Learning Sciences.
Marin, A., Halle-Erby, K., McDaid-Morgan, N., Meixi., Collins, C., Booker, A., Bang, M. (accepted). Ethics and Researcher Learning. [Symposia] Deepening perceptions of learning: Studying and designing ethical practice with researchers, teachers and learners. In the Proceedings of the 15th International Conference of the Learning Sciences. Nashville: International Society of the Learning Sciences.
Meixi. & Elliot-Groves, E (accepted). Storywork with homelands towards families’ collective continuance. [Symposia] The power of storytelling and storylistening for human learning and becoming. In the Proceedings of the 15th International Conference of the Learning Sciences. Nashville: International Society of the Learning Sciences.
Meixi. (accepted). Stories, social dreaming, and collectivizing teacher education towards family futures. [Symposia] Taking on the Task of Reimagining Teacher Education: Positioning Teachers as Emergent Learning Scientists within Complex Political and Ethical Ecologies. In the Proceedings of the 15th International Conference of the Learning Sciences. Nashville: International Society of the Learning Sciences.
Meixi., Rincón-Gallardo, S., Elox, M.J., (accepted) Movements within the poetic and the political: Stories of everyday collective action within Tutoría networked communities of learners. [Symposia]Global Perspectives on Social Movement Collective Action as Learning. In the Proceedings of the 15th International Conference of the Learning Sciences. Nashville: International Society of the Learning Sciences.
Ouyang, F., Chang, Y.-H., & Scharber, C. (accepted). Can an instructor and students build collaborative partnership in an online course. In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS). International Society of the Learning Sciences.
Tzou, C., Meixi., Starks, E., Peterson, S., Ramayon, A., Braun, A., Ortiz, S.M., Bell, P., Bang, M.,(accepted). TechTales: Supporting the Centering of Family Stories in Family Engineering Learning. [Symposia] Exploring the Dynamics and Potentials of Reimagining and Engaging Intergenerational Learning. In the Proceedings of the 15th International Conference of the Learning Sciences. Nashville: International Society of the Learning Sciences.
Valerie, J., Aylward, G., Varma, K. (accepted) I solved it! Using the Rubik’s Cube to Support Mental Rotation in a Middle School Science Classroom. In the Proceedings of the 15th International Conference of the Learning Sciences. Nashville: International Society of the Learning Sciences.
Varma, K., Contreas, E., Loiselle, T., Rohloff, C., Lopez, I, Bullard, S., Simpson, L., & Abdi, A. (accepted). Creating Equitable Connected Learning Experiences for Teachers, Students, and Parents. In the Proceedings of the 15th International Conference of the Learning Sciences. Nashville: International Society of the Learning Sciences.
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