LSTD@25

Agenda  Speakers and Presenters

Location

Angela Nomellini and Ken Olivier [ANKO] Building, Shriram Family Hall 
and GSE Forum (formerly known as the School of Education and Cubberley)
485 Lasuen Mall, Stanford, CA

Agenda

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Friday, February 20

8:30–10:00 a.m. | Check-in, student-led tours of new GSE buildings, breakfast

ANKO, 2nd Floor, Shriram Reception 

Tour Guides: Jiayun (Judy) He, Julia Poel, and Bernardo Silveira, LSTD doctoral students 
Open organization for informal social networking

10:00–10:15 a.m. | Conference Welcome

ANKO, 2nd Floor, Shriram Family Hall

Emcees: Tamara Sobomehin and Kavindya Thennakoon, LSTD doctoral students 
Speakers: Dan Schwartz, I. James Quillen Dean, Stanford Graduate School of Education and 
Roy Pea, David Jacks Professor of Education & Learning Sciences, Stanford GSE

10:15–11:15 a.m. | Keynote Address: Prolepsis ‘Til Infinity: Designing STEM Futures Through Play, Media, and Imagination

ANKO, 2nd Floor, Shriram Family Hall

Speaker: Kareem Edouard, Assistant Professor, Drexel School of Education 
Moderator: Christina (Stina) Krist, Associate Professor, Stanford GSE 

11:15–12:05 p.m. | Fireside Chat:  Learner-Centered Education in a Generative AI Era

ANKO, 2nd Floor, Shriram Family Hall

Panelists: Cathy Chase, Senior Scholar, Stanford Accelerator for Learning;  Bethanie Drake-Maples, LSTD doctoral student; and Jaylen Pittman, LSTD doctoral student; Moderator: Nick Haber, Assistant Professor, Stanford GSE 

12:05–1:00 p.m. | Lunch

ANKO, 2nd Floor, Shriram Family Hall

Open organization for informal social networking

1:00–2:00 p.m. | Featured Plenary: Teaching AI in K-12: Designs to Prepare Young Learners to Navigate and Shape an AI-Driven World

ANKO, 2nd Floor, Shriram Family Hall

Speaker: Shuchi Grover, Director of Research and Impact, Raspberry Pi Foundation 
Moderator: Victor Lee, Associate Professor, Stanford GSE 

2:00–2:50 p.m. | Fireside Chat:  Virtual and Mixed Reality Learning

ANKO, 2nd Floor, Shriram Family Hall

Panelists: Keith Bowen, Director, Learning Design Challenge, Stanford GSE; Alan Cheng, computer science doctoral student; and Robb Lindgren, Associate Dean of Research, College of Education, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Moderator: Hari Subramonyam, Assistant Professor (Research), Stanford GSE, Faculty Fellow at Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered AI 

2:50–3:10 p.m. | Afternoon break

ANKO, 2nd Floor, Shriram Family Hall

3:10–4:00 p.m. | Demonstration Showcase

ANKO, 2nd Floor, Shriram I

• Kristen Blair | AI Quests
• Merve Cerit Burgoon | Media Content Atlas: A Pipeline to Explore and Investigate Multidimensional Media Space using Multimodal LLMs
• Niki Konstantinides | CrashCourse: An Interactive, Evidence-Based Toolkit for Youth Concussion Education
• Marcos Rojas | Clinical Mind AI
• Soren Rosier | PeerTeach: AI-Powered Peer Tutoring for K-12 Math
• Hari Subramonyam | Script&Shift
• Kavindya Thennakoon | Tilli: Connecting Teachers with Real-Time Social Emotional Supports
• Gregory Wilson | Stanford Accelerator for Learning: AI Tinkery
• Xi Jia Zhou | NumberNest AI: Culturally-Adaptive Family Learning Partner

4:00–4:20 p.m. | Moderated Reflections on Day 1

ANKO, 2nd Floor, Shriram Family Hall

Participants share insights, lessons learned, priority questions for the Future of Computer-Augmented Human Learning
Moderator: Kristen Blair 

4:20–5:30 p.m. | Birds of a Feather Roundtables 

ANKO, 2nd Floor, Shriram Family Hall

Table Captains offer firehose talks and catalyze generative dialog among participants at their tables. Professors Barron and Osuna will pollinate cross-cutting themes—out-of-school learning, teacher learning, family learning.

1. Brain Development and Education | Captain: Bruce McCandliss
2. Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning | Captain: Karin Forssell
3. Engineering Education | Captain: Aditya Johri
4. Equity Emphases in Challenging Times | Captain: Shelley Goldman & Ray McDermott
5. Learning in an Environment of Misinformation | Captain: Laura Moorhead
6. Learning Sciences Graduate Training | Captain: Candace Thille
7. Mathematics Education | Captain: Soren Rosier
8. Science Inquiry and Data Visualizations | Captain: Victoria Delaney

5:30–7:30 p.m. | Reception, Talisman Performance, Group Photo, Poster Session

ANKO, 1st Floor, GSE Forum

Performance: Stanford Talisman
5:45 p.m. LSTD Group Photo 
Reception 
Poster Gallery Walk & Talk 

• Josh Arens | Development and Implementation of an AI Chatbot to Scaffold Problem-Solving in Introductory Chemistry
• Brigid Barron | The Joyful Learning Initiative: How Positive Epistemic Emotions Can Revitalize Education
• Vincent Cavez | Teaching Spell Checkers to Teach: Pedagogical Program Synthesis for Interactive Learning
• Merve Cerit Burgoon | Media Content Atlas: A Pipeline to Explore and Investigate Multidimensional Media Space using Multimodal LLMs
• Victoria Delaney and Emily Southerton | "I know it because I've seen it before:" Epistemic Agency and (Mathematical?) Reasoning with ChatGPT
• Kareem Edouard | More Than Meets the Eye: Transforming Black Boys’ STEM Identities through Liberatory Co-Design and Computational Making
• Osvaldo Jiménez | Noisrucer: A Student-Developed Game for Recursion
• Zoe Kaputa and Anika Rajaram | SimStep: Human-in-the-Loop Authoring of Interactive Educational Simulations Through Task-Level Abstractions
• Anya Ma | Improving Validity and Efficiency of Digital Dyslexia Screening through Trial By Trial Feedback
• L’Nard Tufts | AI as Collaborative Partner: Scaling Qualitative Analysis and Formative Feedback in Engineering Education
• Xi Jia Zhou | NumberNest AI: Culturally-Adaptive Family Learning Partner

Saturday, February 21

8:00–9:00 a.m. | Coffee and Breakfast

ANKO, 1st Floor, GSE Forum 

9:00–10:00 a.m. | Featured Plenary: Thriving in Fogaraté: Humanity, Generational Memory and Academic Freedom in Engineering Education

ANKO, 2nd Floor, Shriram Family Hall

Greses Pérez, McDonnell Family Assistant Professor, Tufts University
Discussant: Angela Booker, Provost, Eighth College, Associate Professor, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego 

10:00–11:00 a.m. | Synthesis Session on Education Futures

ANKO, 2nd Floor, Shriram Family Hall

Building on Friday’s Birds of Feather table outcomes: each table captain provides one slide from their table’s participants’ outcomes. 
Moderator: Lori Takeuchi, Program Director, National Science Foundation 

11:00–12:00 p.m. | Closing Team Plenary Dialog: Dynamic Designs for Non-profits and For-profits to Advance K-12 Education and Global Health

ANKO, 2nd Floor, Shriram Family Hall

Piya Sorcar, Founder & CEO, TeachAids; Adjunct Professor, Stanford School of Medicine, and Aditya Vishwanath, Co-Founder & CEO, InSpirit 

12:00–1:00 p.m. | Lunch and closing remarks

ANKO, 1st Floor, GSE Forum

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