Creative classrooms with AI: Innovate responsibly
Course details
This course focuses on using AI to support creativity in the classroom, offering practical approaches for teachers to encourage student-led creation, innovation, and engaging learning experiences that reflect today’s educational realities. Participants explore a range of AI tools for creative expression and examine how these tools can support key competences such as critical thinking, problem-solving, collaboration, and creativity. The course emphasises a shift from AI as a content generator to AI as a creative partner, enabling learners to brainstorm ideas, prototype solutions, remix content, and develop original work across subjects and age groups.
Teachers are guided through hands-on design activities, including prompt design for classroom use, the use of AI to support STEAM and interdisciplinary projects, and the creation of learning tasks that move students from consumers to creators. Ethical and responsible use is embedded within these creative practices, helping teachers model intentional, transparent, and reflective AI use. By the end of the course, participants will have designed classroom-ready activities and resources that support student creativity, competence development, and responsible engagement with AI.
The course is offered by the European School Education Platform. Visit our website for more information.
Duration and workload
Start and end date: open-ended, you can take this course (or any section) at your own pace
Duration: self-paced
Workload: 8-10 hours
This self-paced course is already available online. It is adapted from a version that ran from Monday, 16 March to Wednesday, 1 April 2026. Designed for flexibility, it lets you explore content and complete activities at your own pace, no deadlines, live sessions, or required meetings. While the original course included scheduled discussions and peer reviews, this version allows independent learning with the same materials and guidance. Forum discussions and Padlet contributions will not be moderated, fostering a fully self-directed experience. To support reflection, you'll be encouraged to assess your own work using the provided criteria.
To make the course accessible to a wider audience, we’ve developed this self-paced format. This version allows you to explore the content and complete the activities at your own pace, whenever it suits you best.
What the self-study format means:
- Flexible schedule: You decide when and how to engage with the course materials. There are no deadlines, live sessions, or required meeting times.
- Independent learning: While the original course included discussions and peer reviews taking place in certain days and weeks, this format empowers you to work independently, using the same materials and guidance provided during the initial version. Please note that discussions in the forums and contributions on Padlets will not be moderated, allowing for a fully self-directed learning experience.
- Self-assessment: To replicate some of the reflective benefits of peer feedback, you will be encouraged to evaluate your own work using the provided assessment criteria.
Course competences
The recipient of this certificate has demonstrated proficiency of the following competences according to the digital competence framework of the European Commission's SELFIE for TEACHERs tool:
- Professional engagement – Online learning environments at B1 level
- Professional engagement – Digital technologies and school level infrastructure at B1 level
- Digital resources – Searching and selecting at B2 level
- Teaching and learning – Teaching at B1 level
- Empowering learners – Accessibility and inclusion at B1 level
For more information about the competences and associated proficiency levels see the SELFIE for TEACHERs toolkit.
Target audience
This course is designed for teachers from all school levels and subjects who want to help students create with AI, are interested in integrating AI tools into instructional practice developing curriculum-aligned resources with AI support, and critically examining associated ethical issues.
Learning objectives
- Identify and evaluate AI tools by analysing their potential to support creative and meaningful learning activities.
- Design learner-centred learning activities that position learners as creators, critical thinkers, and problem-solvers.
- Demonstrate the integration of ethical and responsible AI use in a classroom scenario.
- Explore mentoring strategies to guide students in navigating AI-rich learning environments while assessing their confidence and understanding.
- Construct curriculum-aligned, AI-enhanced lessons and resources that support creativity while promoting responsible AI use, and evaluate their effectiveness.
Offered by
This content is offered by the European Commission. The European Commission is the European Union's politically independent executive arm. It is alone responsible for drawing up proposals for new European legislation, and it implements the decisions of the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union.
Schedule
- How this self-paced course works
- Module 1: The new educational landscape - opportunities, challenges & ethics
- Module 2: Empowering creativity - AI as a tool for innovation
- Module 3: Designing the future - AI-enhanced lessons & assessment
- Certificate of completion
