Dear all,
I would like to draw your attention to a Special Issue on Education in
Artificial Intelligence K-12 that we are putting together in the German
Journal of Artificial Intelligence (KI - Künstliche Intelligenz). The
call for paper is attached as a PDF and included in text below.

Best regards,
Fredrik

Important dates
Submission deadline: July 20, 2020
Notification to authors: October 9, 2020
Submission of camera ready papers: October 30, 2020

Description
The upcoming special issue of the German Journal of Artificial
Intelligence (KI - Künstliche Intelligenz) addresses the emerging topic
of education in Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the K-12 level. In
recent years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has attracted a lot of
attention from the public, and become a major topic of economic and
societal discussion. AI already has a significant influence on various
areas of life and across different sectors and fields. The speed and
force with which AI is impacting our work and everyday life poses a
tremendous challenge for our society and educational system. Teaching
fundamental AI concepts and techniques has traditionally been done at
the university level. However, in recent years several initiatives and
projects pursuing the mission of K-12 AI education have emerged. In this
context we also see education organizations and AI experts as well as
governments developing and deploying AI-curricula and programs for a
K-12 audience. The aim of this special issue is to provide a compact
overview over this growing field.

Topic areas
We invite contributions from researchers, practitioners, and educators
interested in education in AI at K-12 level. Topics of interests include
(but are not limited to):
* K-12 AI educational initiatives and projects
* AI curricula
* AI teaching concepts and materials
* Didactical aspects of AI education
* Social, ethical and economic aspects of K-12 AI education
* Software and hardware tools in AI education and how those tools could
improve teaching AI
* Best practices for training educators to teach about AI (Train the
Trainer)
* Parental involvement in AI-literacy
* Approaches dealing with the question of what should be taught to
prepare youth for a digitized world
* Best practice examples AI education
* AI K-12 education in relation to existing school curricula and ways to
integrate AI into these curricula
* Relation of AI education to teaching computer science and other STEM
topics

Categories and submission instructions
* Technical contributions: research papers up to 15 pages (i.e. papers
describing innovative and novel approaches in the area of AI education
and dealing with fundamental challenges related to AI education)

* Project presentations: papers describing K-12 AI educational projects
or initiatives of a considerable impact; up to 10 pages

* Dissertation / habilitation reports: extended abstracts of relevant
doctoral or habilitation theses; up to 1 page

Submitted papers must be original work not yet published or currently
under review for other journals, magazines or conferences. All papers
will be peer-reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. If you are
interested in submitting a paper please contact one of the guest editors.

Guest editors:
* Gerald Steinbauer, Graz University of Technology, Institute of
Software Technology, Graz, Austria; (xxxxxx@ist.tugraz.at)
* Martin Kandlhofer, Austrian Computer Society, Vienna, Austria;
(xxxxxx@ist.tugraz.at)
* Tara Chklovski, Founder and CEO of Technovation USA;
(xxxxxx@iridescentlearning.org)
* Fredrik Heintz, Department of Computer Science, Linköping University,
Sweden; (xxxxxx@liu.se)
* Sven Koenig, Computer Science Department, University of Southern
California, USA; (xxxxxx@usc.edu)