đ€ Thanks to Sylvie Barma, Simon Duguay, Guillaume Isaac, Caroline Duret, Laurent Heiser, and Vivien Lake we pushed forward the creative engagement in #AIeD. Creative engagement is a form of engagement that is not only cognitive but also in which the learner is a creative agent, producing (or making) generative acts or artifacts.
#AI can be used not only for knowledge co-creation in participatory contexts but also to transform human practices, while conceptualizing differently and developing the participants’ agency, as a shared collaborative process between generative AI tools and human agents. At this sixth level, #AI is integrated into the creation of critical knowledge and aims to develop agency and transform human practices.
The instantiation of the Passive-Participatory (PP) model for AI en education (#PPai6) distinguishes six levels of creative engagement.
- Level 1. Passive consumer. The learner consumes AI-generated content without understanding how it works.
- Level 2. Interactive consumer. The learner interacts with AI-generated content. The AI system adapts to the learnersâ actions.
- Level 3. Individual content creation. The learner creates new content using AI tools.
- Level 4. Collaborative content creation. A team creates new content using AI tools.
- Level 5. Participatory knowledge co-creation. A team creates content thanks to AI tools and the collaboration of stakeholders in a complex problem.
- Level 6. Expansive learning supported by AI. In formative interventions supported by AI, participants’ agency may expand or transform problematic situations. AI tools can be used to help identify contradictions in complex problems and help generate concepts or artifacts to regulate conflicting stimuli and foster collective agency and action. AI tools can be used to assist in the modeling of activity systems as well as in the simulation of new actions, facilitating the expansive visualization process.
AI can be used not only for knowledge co-creation in participatory contexts but also to transform human practices, while conceptualizing differently and developing the participants’ agency, as a shared collaborative process between generative AI tools and human agents. At this sixth level, #AI is integrated into the creation of critical knowledge and aims to develop agency and transform human practices. However, actually, most of the #AIeD studies are developed at the second level (interactive consumer), with the majority of AI tools based on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS). These are the results of the study developed with Dea Puspita Septiani (MSc SmartEdTech) and Panos Kostakos (University of Oulu) for the WP4 of augMENTOR project.
đ In the study below, we review AIED studies considering the creative engagement level in the integration of AI in education (#PPai6).
Septiani, D.P., Kostakos, P., Romero, M. (2023). 5c21-AI, a five-level framework of creative engagement in AI tools in education. In 13th International Conference on Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning.
đ In the article of McMinn, S. (2023). AI-Assisted Assessment: Enhancing Technical Writing Through Collaborative Dialogues. Fantasy Education.
The assessment design McMinn describes in his article could also be « applied to a task where you use AI for participatory-knowledge co-creation. By adopting an experiential approach course design, course teachers can invite stakeholders with a complex problem, and ask students to complete the task with them. This would be a more authentic real-world task! » (para. 19).
Margarida Romero 