This paper unpacks the commercial rhetoric of Google for Education. Through the analysis of information published on the official Google for Education website, the paper seeks to make visible how this service promotes and reproduces certain ways of talking, thinking about and doing education. The aim is to contribute to a critical discussion of the potential implications of allowing major commercial players to take the lead in the development of digital infrastructure in education. Guiding the analysis is the notion of ‘problem’ understood as central for Google for Education’s success story. The case of Sweden, in which Google for Education has become widely used, forms the vantage point for this discussion. The study makes visible how Google for Education, in the commercial rhetoric, is constructed as the solution to problem representations by being positioned as a much-needed bridge, in the shape of digital information infrastructure, between digital policy and educational practice. However, Google for Education is far from simply a practical solution to a set of expensive and urgent problems. To uncritically embrace Google as the information infrastructure of education is to hand over power to one actor, which closes doors to alternative paths of doing and knowing in education.

本文阐述了Google for Education的商业言论。通过对Google for Education官方网站上发布的信息的分析，本文试图使该服务如何促进和复制某些交谈，思考和进行教育的方式。目的是促进对允许主要商业参与者带头发展教育数字基础设施的潜在影响的批判性讨论。指导分析的是“问题”的概念，该问题被理解为Google for Education成功案例的核心。以瑞典为例，其中Google for Education已被广泛使用，构成了本次讨论的有利条件。这项研究表明，通过将商业政策中的Google for Education定位为数字政策基础设施，数字政策和教育实践之间急需的桥梁（以数字信息基础设施的形式），可以将其构建为问题表示的解决方案。但是，Google for Education绝不是简单的实际解决方案，它可以解决一系列昂贵且紧迫的问题。不加批判地将Google用作教育的信息基础设施，就是将权力移交给一个参与者，这为其他在教育中做事和了解的途径敞开了大门。