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Alex Örtegren

PhD student, Dept of Applied Educational Science. Researching teacher educators' preparation of new teachers to teach for democracy in relation to digital technologies, such as fake news and AI.

0000-0002-6930-9239

Contact

E-mail
alex.ortegren@umu.se
Phone
+46 90 786 74 72

Works as

Affiliation
Doctoral student at Department of Applied Educational Science Section: Floor 3
Location
Naturvetarhuset, huskropp NB, Johan Bures väg 14 Umeå universitet, 90187 Umeå

Research

I research teacher educators' preparation of new teachers to teach for democracy in relation to digital technologies, such as fake news and AI. Examples of areas of interest are postdigital theory, teacher educators' profession-specific digital competence, and how their competence ultimately can influence young people's democratic participation in societies permeated with digital technologies.

I am part of the Swedish research consortium GRADEresearch, where nine universities collectively work to understand how the digitalization of society impacts education. My peer-review activities include international scientific journals such as European Journal of Teacher Education and Education and Information Technologies.

Roles

Critical genAI literacy: postdigital configurations
Postdigital Science and Education
Rapanta, Chrysi; Bhatt, Ibrar; Bozkurt, Aras; et al.
Artificial intelligence curricula in nordic schools: policy ideas in institutional change – the Swedish case
NERA 2025, Helsinki, Finland, March 5-7, 2025
Örtegren, Alex
Review of Anders Buch, Ylva Lindberg, and Teresa Cerratto Pargman (Eds.). (2024). Framing Futures in Postdigital Education: Critical Concepts for Data-driven Practices: Cham: Springer. 243 pp. ISBN 9783031586217 (Hardcover)
Postdigital Science and Education, Springer Nature 2025, Vol. 7 : 603-609
Örtegren, Alex
Introducing AI as a subject in Swedish education
3rd International Symposium on Digital Transformation (ISDT2024), Växjö, September 11-13, 2024
Velander, Johanna; Örtegren, Alex; Sperling, Katarina
Philosophical underpinnings of digital citizenship through a postdigital lens: implications for teacher educators’ professional digital competence
Education and Information Technologies: Official Journal of the IFIP technical committee on Education, Springer 2024, Vol. 29 : 4253-4285
Örtegren, Alex
Postdigital democracy
Encyclopedia of postdigital science and education, Cham: Springer 2024 : 1-8
Örtegren, Alex
Pathways to professional digital competence to teach for digital citizenship: social science teacher education in flux
Teachers and Teaching: theory and practice, Routledge 2024, Vol. 30, (4) : 526-544
Örtegren, Alex; Olofsson, Anders D.
A postdigital lens on teaching for digital citizenship: opportunities and challenges for teacher educators’ professional digital competence
Participation and the Postdigital: Contemporary technologies and practices in education and urban life, Braunschweig, Germany, May 4-5, 2023
Örtegren, Alex
Professionell digital kompetens för att undervisa för ett digitalt medborgarskap: förslag på praktiknära forskning för utveckling av ämneslärarutbildningsprofessionen
Konferens i pedagogiskt arbete, 2023: book of abstracts, Linköping: Linköping University Electronic Press 2023 : 30-30
Örtegren, Alex
Artificial intelligence in Nordic K-12 education: implications of materials and resources for digital citizenship formation
Nordic educational research association (NERA) conference 2023: digitalization and technologies in education – opportunities and challenges, Oslo, Norway, March 15 -17, 2023
Örtegren, Alex; Velander, Johanna
Dissolving the Dichotomies Between Online and Campus-Based Teaching: a Collective Response to The Manifesto for Teaching Online (Bayne et al. 2020)
Postdigital Science and Education, Springer 2022 : 271-329
MacKenzie, Alison; Bacalja, Alexander; Annamali, Devisakti; et al.
Digital citizenship in teacher education – Exploring conceptualizations in a postdigital era
Networked Learning 2022: Proceedings for the thirteenth International Conference on Networked Learning : 348-357
Örtegren, Alex
Digital Citizenship and Professional Digital Competence: Swedish Subject Teacher Education in a Postdigital Era
Postdigital Science and Education, Springer 2022, Vol. 4 : 467-493
Örtegren, Alex
Preparing Teachers of Social Studies in a Postdigital Era – Teacher Educators’ Views of Digital Citizenship and Professional Digital Competence
European Conference on Educational Research, ECER Plus, Yerevan, Armenia, September 1-10, 2022
Örtegren, Alex; Olofsson, Anders D.
Coping with vulnerability in strategic alliances: reciprocity, altruism, and blurred hospitality
Managing the partners in strategic alliances, Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing 2021 : 85-111
Kostis, Angelos; Örtegren, Alex
Digital Citizenship and Professional Digital Competence in a Postdigital Age: Teacher Educators' Views and Potentialities
Scuola Democratica (2021). Book of Abstracts of the International Conference of the journal Scuola Democratica. Reinventing Education, Rome, 2-5 June, Associazione “Per Scuola Democratica”, Rome: Scuola democratica 2021 : 343-343
Örtegren, Alex; Olofsson, Anders D.
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I teach courses mainly in the field of digital technologies and education but also other courses:

  • Introduction to AI in education, 7,5 ECTS
  • Teaching artifical intelligence in upper secondary school — technical perspectives, 7.5 hp
  • Applied ICT in school, 7.5 ECTS
  • Digital competence and learning I and II, 15 ECTS
  • Documentation in preschool education in times of digital transformation, 7.5 ECTS
  • Profession, leadership and teaching, 7.5 ECTS
  • Degree project in subject didactics, 15 ECTS
  • Video games and learning I, 7.5 ECTS