[WORKSHOP] 🚩 M.00. Navigating Techno-Futures in Education: Artificial Intelligence and Temporality (Presentation of SD Special Issue 1/2026)

In contemporary education, Artificial Intelligence no longer operates merely as an external tool or a future promise: it constitutes a temporal dispositif, actively reshaping the rhythms, compositions, and scores through which learning is organized and governed. From data-driven prediction systems to generative models like ChatGPT, the insertion of AI into pedagogical and institutional educational life introduces a shift from feedback-based to "feedforward temporalities" (Tulchinsky & Mason, 2023), where the present is increasingly governed as if the future was already known and actionable (Adams et al., 2009).

This symposium stems from the Special Issue Navigating Techno-Futures in Education (Scuola Democratica 1/2026), and stages a collective inquiry into the temporal reconfigurations prompted by AI in education. It asks: how are time, agency, and decision-making being reassembled under algorithmic regimes? What does it mean to teach, learn, and research within assemblages where temporality becomes fluid and the lever of governing? How do these shifts affect professional subjectivities, institutional molarity, and future imaginaries?

Organized as a dynamic "fishbowl" session, the symposium invites the contributors to engage in a sequence of short “provocations” drawn from their respective papers. These interventions will open a dialogue on the socio-technical entanglements of AI and education, focusing on:

• the transformation of classroom interaction and professional reflexivity;
• the rise of algorithmic governance and risk-based educational decision-making;
• the impact of generative automation on the temporal economy of research and authorship;
• the emergence of new figures of epistemic citizenship shaped by probabilistic reasoning and datafied futures.

Rather than offering prescriptions or technological endorsements, this symposium invites participants to stay with the trouble (Haraway, 2016): to confront, reflect, and collectively navigate the new chronopolitics of education.

Symposium Agenda (provisional titles)
Chair: Danilo Taglietti (Createck S.c.a.r.l.) & Leonardo Piromalli (IREF)
Format: Dynamic roundtable in a “fishbowl” format

1. Introduction. Governing Education through Time: AI, Anticipation, and the Crisis of the Present
   Danilo Taglietti (Createck S.c.a.r.l.) & Leonardo Piromalli (IREF)
2. Provocations by the Authors. Temporal Regimes and AI in Education
   2.1. Focus: Classroom, Interaction, and Professional Agency
   2.2. Focus: Algorithmic Governance and Logics of Anticipation
   2.3. Focus: Epistemology, Subjectivity, and Educational Futures
3. Roundtable among Authors. Entangled Temporalities and the Politics of Educational Futures
4. Closing Thoughts. AI, Temporality, and the Oracular Turn of Education
   Cosimo Accoto (MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology & Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia – to be confirmed)
5. Audience Discussion. Critical Reflections and Open Questions