This research proposal focuses on how Teacher Education can provide teacher students with the professional competency needed for their future working lives, where Artificial Intelligent (AI) systems using machine learning are expected to play a more central role in everyday school practice.

Cormac McGrath

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:

1. What is AI literacy and what does it mean in theory and practice in Teacher Education?
2. How can the design of sustainable AI literacy content be developed and evaluated in Teacher Education?

Linnéa Stenliden

Answering these questions will provide the scientific foundation necessary both to understand what AI literacy in Teacher Education is and how to design and evaluate methods for teaching AI literacy in Swedish Teacher Education. This is essential for  educating teachers on scientific grounds, a profession that already includes cooperation with AI systems.

Project managers

Cormac McGrath, Associate professorDepartment of Education, Stockholm University

Linnéa Stenliden, Senior associate professor, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Linköping University

Project members

Fredrik Heinz, Professor,  Department of Computer and Information Science  Linköping University 
Anna Åkerfeldt, Researcher, Departement of Teaching and Learning, Stockholm University and Ifous

Funding

The funding was received from The Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program – Humanities and Society (WASP-HS). This is a research program which research tackles the challenges and impacts of upcoming technology shifts.

Link to the announcement on WASP-HS´s webpage