Primary school teachers’ perceived AI-related professional knowledge in Slovakia: a city-wide ITPACK study

The Slovak education system is preparing for curricular updates that are expected to support the inclusion of artificial intelligence (AI) from the 2026/2027 school year, creating a need to understand teachers’ capacity for effective, ethical, and pedagogically meaningful AI integration. Effective AI integration requires a synergy between technology, content, and pedagogy, rather than a narrow focus on the user-level application of digital tools. Using the Intelligent Technological Pedagogical C