WP4: Creative use of AI in education

This work package is about AI in schools and universities. How can teachers and students use AI to learn better, be more creative and think for themselves? And how do we teach people what AI is and what it can and cannot do?

This work package explores how education can use AI to open new ways of learning, foster creativity, and support critical thinking and AI literacy. AI is arriving fast in classrooms and lecture halls, bringing opportunities for teaching and learning alongside serious pedagogical, ethical and practical questions.

This WP explores how education can harness AI to enhance learning opportunities, foster creativity, and support critical thinking and AI literacy. The rapid inclusion of AI into education presents transformative opportunities and challenges for teaching and learning alongside significant pedagogical, ethical and practical issues.

Description

Right now, many schools try out AI tools on their own, and most of them are commercial products. Good, free teaching materials about creative AI are rare, and almost none exist in Norwegian. Norway needs a joint effort to teach AI skills in schools, in higher education and to adults who keep learning.

We want future teachers and today’s teachers to understand AI well enough to use it wisely. We work with the other work packages so that new research reaches classrooms, and so that teachers have a say in how the technology develops.

Education today is marked by many local initiatives to adopt commercial AI tools, while high-quality open educational resources, especially on creative AI, are scarce and hardly exist in Norwegian. A joint effort is needed to build AI literacy in Norwegian schools and to deepen the understanding and use of creative AI in higher education and lifelong learning.

The aim is to give future practitioners and teachers the competence to handle AI’s complexities, and to give today’s teachers resources that keep a generational gap in AI literacy from opening. The work package works closely with the other work packages, bringing their findings into programmes and curricula and giving education a voice in how the technology develops.

The educational sector is currently characterised by numerous local initiatives to adopt commercial AI tools. However, high-quality, open education resources—especially on Creative AI—are scarce, with hardly any available in Norwegian. There is a clear need for a unified effort to advance AI literacy in Norwegian schools and enhance the understanding and application of Creative AI in higher education and lifelong learning.

The aim is to equip future practitioners and educators with the competence to navigate AI’s complexities while providing current educators with resources to minimise a generational gap in AI literacy. WP4 will collaborate closely with researchers from other WPs to incorporate insights from ongoing research into educational programs and curricula and to influence technological developments from an educational point of view.

Research Questions

How can creative AI make teaching and learning better, and help people be more creative?
How can using AI in art education change who gets to decide what counts as knowledge?
How do we make sure AI in education is fair, safe, private and open to everyone?
How does AI in school relate to how artists use AI outside school, and what can each learn from the other?

RQ4.1: How can creative AI be brought into teaching and learning so that it strengthens both learning and human creativity?
RQ4.2: How can artistic use of AI in creative and fine arts education challenge and develop the hierarchies that decide what counts as knowledge in education and research?
RQ4.3: What measures keep ethical concerns, such as diversity, justice, fairness, inclusion, privacy, trust and accessibility, at the centre when AI is introduced in creative education?
RQ4.4: How can the relationship between AI in formal education and AI in wider artistic practice be mapped and analysed, so that creative AI is used better in both?

RQ4.1: How can Creative AI be effectively integrated to enhance teaching and learning and foster human creativity?
RQ4.2: How can the artistic use of AI within creative and fine arts education challenge and develop hierarchies of knowledge production in education and research?
RQ4.3: What measures can ensure that ethical considerations such as diversity, justice, fairness, inclusion, privacy, trust, and accessibility are central to implementing AI in creative education?
RQ4.4: How can the relationship between AI in formalised education and the application of AI in broader artistic practice be mapped and analysed to advance the use of Creative AI?

Approaches

CREATE: teaching materials and methods for using AI in art and in the classroom, with fairness and safety built in.
EXPLORE: how AI is used for art and learning in schools, in courses and in everyday life.
REFLECT: on what AI in education means, and give advice to schools and to policy makers.

CREATE: educational material, models and methods for wide use in artistic and pedagogical practice with AI, with ethical questions of diversity, justice, fairness, inclusion, privacy, trust and accessibility in the foreground.
EXPLORE: the artistic and pedagogical use of AI in formal, non-formal and informal learning, including a shared understanding of what AI literacy means in creative and fine arts education.
REFLECT: on what using AI in education implies, and propose frameworks and policy advice for it.

CREATE: educational material, models and methods for broad applications through artistic and pedagogical practices with AI, emphasising ethical issues related to diversity, justice, fairness, inclusion, privacy, trust and accessibility.
EXPLORE: the artistic and pedagogical use of AI in formal, non-formal and informal learning contexts, including developing a shared understanding of AI literacy for creative and fine arts education.
REFLECT: on the implications of using AI in education to suggest frameworks and policy recommendations for using AI in education.

Sustainability

This work helps with one of the United Nations’ goals for a better world. Teaching materials, courses for working teachers, and the long reach of teacher education all support good education for everyone (SDG 4).

The centre’s other commitments on sustainability, openness and reuse are on the open research page.

This work package contributes to one of the UN Sustainable Development Goals directly. Teaching resources, continuing professional development for practising teachers, and the long reach of teacher education serve quality education (SDG 4).

The centre’s other commitments on sustainability, openness and reuse are on the open research page.