MARGARIDA ROMERO

CREATIVE USES OF AI FOR TEACHERS AND LEARNER AGENCY.

Abstract
Creative uses of artificial intelligence offer opportunities to move teaching and learning beyond passive and instrumental adoption toward expansive learning supported by AI. Grounded in the #PPAI6 framework, this contribution focuses on higher levels of creative engagement, where AI mediates the development of teacher and learner agency rather than merely supporting interaction or efficiency. The analysis examines how AI can function as a mediating tool for creative action, enabling teachers to act as pedagogical co-designers and learners as creative agents who generate artifacts, concepts, and actions capable of transforming educational practices. At these levels of engagement, AI supports the exploration of contradictions in complex problem spaces, the modeling of activity systems, and the development of collective agency. Using #PPAI6 as both a design and analytical lens, the keynote highlights pathways for strengthening autonomy, shared responsibility, and agency in AI-supported education.

Bio
is a research professor at the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC). After the best PhD award in Psychology (2010), she did her tenure track at Université Laval (Canada) and was appointed in 2017 as a full professor at Université Côte d’Azur, Nice, where she founded the LINE, a research unit in the learning sciences. Her research focuses on the study of creative uses of technology (#ppai6), particularly in relation to AIED and creative problem-solving in CSCL.