Research project AI literacy for Swedish Teacher Education
How can Teacher Education provide teacher students with the professional competency needed in a future where Artificial Intelligence (AI) is expected to play a more central role in the school?
The introduction of AI technologies in classrooms raises concerns related to school teachers’ and teacher educators’ understanding of how these technologies work in theory and practice. Moreover, the ways AI could inform teachers’ practices are still poorly understood. In this context teacher educator’s AI literacy becomes of central importance for the ways teacher students will later adopt, relate to and teach about AI in their profession and as a way of enabling future initiatives around AI technologies in education.
The aim of this project is to study AI literacy in the context of Swedish Teacher Education with a focus on teacher educators’ professional development. This entails establishing evidence and good practice in Teacher Education concerning the design and evaluation of content, pedagogy, technology, and ethics for teaching sustainable AI literacy. This aim is addressed by two research questions:
- What is AI literacy and what does it mean in theory and practice in TE?
- How can the design of sustainable AI literacy content be developed and evaluated in TE?
Project members
Project managers
Cormac McGrath
Senior lecturer
Linnéa Stenliden
Senior associate professor
Members
Fredrik Heintz
Professor
Anna Åkerfeldt
Researcher
