This paper provides a critical examination of the domain of artificial intelligence (AI) in education, with a focus on the expectations and practical implications accompanying its integration into teaching. The expectations have been propelled by two interconnected concepts: (1) the potential for AI to automate pedagogical processes, replacing teachers in certain scenarios; and (2) the notion that teachers’ insights can be augmented through AI-based analysis. Drawing on two ethnographic studies in Swedish primary and secondary schools, this paper explores the enactments of pupils, teachers and two AI-based educational technologies. The aim is to demonstrate how automation and augmentation can emerge in teachers’ practice. Utilizing inspiration from a relational epistemological problematisation of socio-technical phenomena, the paper demonstrates how rather than automation and augmentation, AI in education is an act of symmation in which automation and augmentation is co-produced by the technology and teachers’ different hidden work, in this paper conceptualised as adaptations, experimentations, compensations and confirmations. The paper suggests that the study of symmation in relation to the teaching profession can be productive in further exploring the yet limited understanding of AI in educational practice.

This study qualitatively examines synchronous online encounters in Swedish teacher education, learning from the distance and hybrid mode triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic, conceptualized as emergency remote teaching. The separation of bodies in such online teacher education challenges participants’ sensory involvement and how they can be “present” to one another. The aim of this study is to scrutinize body-sensory dimensions of presence to enlighten online encounters in teacher training in circumstances of emergency remote teaching, as well as in contemporary and future online teacher education, generally. Online encounters were documented by video recordings during online seminars and lectures, and by diary entries and focus groups with eight teacher educators and their students. With inspiration from a posthumanist problematization of communication and post-qualitative methodology, the analytical process puts the concepts alterity and attunement to work with the data. Results show that online teaching encounters provides an altered body-sensory situation to which participants sensorily attune in different ways, bringing both positive, and troublesome affects. Different sensory attunements further involve exploiting some body-sensory dimensions (i.e. vision) when others are concealed. When performing teacher training of all levels through emergency remote teaching/online teacher education, awareness of how the material setting of online encounters affects the body and thus the didactic conditions for building meaningful relationships in the study environment, is important. Since the lived body has a key role in teachers’ professional becoming, the study suggests a critical, creative consideration of its full sensory, along with further, qualitative expansion of online teacher education.

Artificial intelligence (AI) literacy has recently emerged on the educational agenda raising expectations on teachers' and teacher educators' professional knowledge. This scoping review examines how the scientific literature conceptualises AI literacy in relation to teachers' different forms of professional knowledge relevant for Teacher Education (TE). The search strategy included papers and proceedings from 2000 to 2023 related to AI literacy and TE as well as the intersection of AI and teaching. Thirty-four papers were included in the analysis. The Aristotelian concepts episteme (theoretical-scientific knowledge), techne (practical-productive knowledge), and phronesis (professional judgement) were used as a lens to capture implicit and explicit dimensions of teachers' professional knowledge. Results indicate that AI literacy is a globally emerging research topic in education but almost absent in the context of TE. The literature covers many different topics and draws on different methodological approaches. Computer science and exploratory teaching approaches influence the type of epistemic, practical, and ethical knowledge. Currently, teachers' professional knowledge is not broadly addressed or captured in the research. Questions of ethics are predominantly addressed as a matter of understanding technical configurations of data-driven AI technologies. Teachers' practical knowledge tends to translate into the adoption of digital resources for teaching about AI or the integration of AI EdTech into teaching. By identifying several research gaps, particularly concerning teachers' practical and ethical knowledge, this paper adds to a more comprehensive understanding of AI literacy in teaching and can contribute to a more wellinformed AI literacy education in TE as well as laying the ground for future research related to teachers' professional knowledge.

This article explores the complex challenges of co-designing an AI- and learning analytics (LA)-integrated learning management system (LMS). While co-design has been proposed as a human-centred design approach for scaling AI and LA adoption, our understanding of how these design processes play out in real-life settings remains limited. This study is based on ethnographic fieldwork in primary and secondary schools and employs a relational materialist approach to trace, visualise, and analyse the increasingly complex and transformative relations between a growing number of actors. The findings shed light on the intricate ecosystem in which AI and LA are being introduced and on the marketisation of K-12 education. Instead of following a rational and sequential approach that can be easily executed, the co-design process emerged as a series of events, shifting from solely generating ideas with teachers to integrating and commercialising the LMS into a school market with an already high prevalence of educational technology (EdTech). AI and LA in education, co-design and data-driven schooling served as negotiating ideas, boundary objects, which maintained connectivity between actors, despite limited AI and LA implementation and the development of a stand-alone app. Even though teachers and students were actively involved in the design decisions, the co-design process did not lead to extensive adoption of the LMS nor did it sufficiently address the ethical issues related to the unrestricted collection of student data.

The current effort to establish computational thinking in compulsory school is not a new agenda. In Sweden, the history starts in the late 1960s with the introduction of computer technology in schools. This chapter explores how the arguments for this endeavour have varied over time and what preceded the initiation of the concepts of digital competence and programming in the subject of Technology and the Swedish national curriculum of 2017. The foundation for this is, on one hand, a scrutiny of four large-scale national campaigns and, on the other hand a review of the Swedish curricula from 1969, 1980, 1994 and 2011. It was found that an underlying political agenda has tightly connected the introduction of “new” technology in schools with the competitiveness of Sweden as an industrial nation.

This study explores how digital tools play a part in the practices of Swedish school-age educare centres (SAEC). The aim is to contribute knowledge about opportunities and/or obstacles in and with digital activities in SAEC practices. Data is produced using observations and conversations at five SAEC centres. The SAEC practice is found to be characterized by three different approaches to digital tools and their use: 1) A permeating practice, where digital tools are an integrated part of the whole day, 2) A happening practice, where digital tools are present on special occasions, and 3) A neglecting practice, where digital tools are absent. These differences can be connected to how teachers interpret their assignment but also to differences in competence, access, and interest in relation to digital tools. This entails that SAEC pupils are given unequal opportunities to develop digital skills.

Vari består egentligen digital kompetens i relation till skolans undervisning? Kan en sådan definieras på en generell, ämnesövergripande nivå eller behöver begreppet nyanseras i interaktion med skolans olika ämnen? I den här boken adresserar vi didaktiska frågor som uppstår i relation till en pågående, global och till stora delar digitalt driven förändring av samhället och därmed skolan. Denna förändring påverkar om inte innebörden av, så i alla fall de praktiska uttrycken för en tänkande, kunskapsskapande individs mest grundläggande förmågor: att läsa och skriva; att kommunicera; att hantera olika typer av text i olika typer av sammanhang. Ett begrepp som inte sällan dyker upp när mötet mellan dessa förmågor och samhällets förändring diskuteras är just digital kompetens. Begreppet har ofta använts, exempelvis i olika policy-, strategi- och styrdokument (Utbildningsdepartementet, 2017) med ett kvantitativt fokus på att digitala verktyg ska tas i bruk i undervisningen, helst i alla lärares klassrum och helst så mycket som möjligt. Den implementering som skett av en mängd olika digitala verktyg i skolan har också fått till följd att digitala resurser ofta diskuteras i dikotomi med andra, analoga och redan befintliga resurser: den digitala (moderna) skolan ställs ofta mot (gårdagens) ”papper och penna-skola” (jfr Biesta, 2022). Detta, menar vi, är olyckligt då det skapar en falsk föreställning, som skymmer sikten för hur olika resurser – digitala såväl som analoga – kan fungera på olika sätt, erbjuda olika möjligheter i olika situationer, för olika personer och i relation till olika syften, såväl i som också utanför skolans värld.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is often highlighted as a transformative technology that can“address some of the biggest challenges in education today”(UNESCO, 2019). Introducing data-driven AI in classrooms also raises pedagogical and ethical concerns related to students’, teachers’ and teacher educators’ understanding of how AI works in theory and practice (Holmes, 2022; Sperling et al., 2022). This extended abstract presents initial findings from the first study conducted within the WASP-HS1-funded research project: "AI Literacy for Swedish Teacher Education - A Participatory Design Approach". The project aims to establish a scientific foundation for teaching AI literacy in teacher education (TE) programs.

This paper studies how transnational children and their distantly locatedbut emotionally close family members recreate their relationship usingapplications for online video calling. The focus is on the interaction ofbodies and language, and if/how proximity of any kind is enabled. Acritical posthumanist applied linguistics is embraced and communicationis viewed as a bodily coordination ocurring in real time. This includes amaterial and dynamic view of language in constant transformation.Video captures are produced with three transnational, multilingualfamilies in China and their adult relatives residing abroad (Europe).Moment analysis informs the processing of data. The analysis includesmultipart semiotic assemblages of critical/creative moments and appliesthe Deleuzian concept of sense. The results suggest, the multi-localanalogue/digital situation in online calling transcends conventionallyimagined spatial ‘boundaries’. Furthermore, a bodily, multisensoryproximity emerge as simultaneously critical to and created by thistranscending spatiality. Multi-local communicative practices shed lighton the multiple, material and semiotic components of the humansenses, and how a rational understanding of proximity might be twisted.Proximity constantly emerges ‘in new copies’ transcending the far awayand close.