Short biography
Víctor Alonso-Prieto received the B.Ed (specialized in English as a Foreign Language in Elementary Education) and M.Ed (research applied to Education) from the University of Valladolid, Spain, in 2019 and 2021, respectively. In between he was a lecturer in an Elementary School in Minnesota, USA. Víctor is currently working toward the Ph.D degree in transdisciplinary research in education with GSIC-EMIC Research Group, University of Valladolid. His main research interests include teacher agency, ethical issues that emerge when artificial intelligence is applied to education and orchestration of technological tools that support hybrid learning scenarios. Moreover, he is a teacher graduate assistant (ICT applied to education course) in the Faculty of Education and Social Work of the University of Valladolid.
Current PhD project
The PhD project is focused on exploring how the orchestration of intelligent technologies influences teacher agency. Technologies that can take a reasonable level of control of learning situations (e.g., Artificial Intelligence) imply that teachers assume different roles as some of the actions that they used to perform (e.g., provide personalized and contextualized recommendations) are to be done by a system. Then, sharing teaching duties with intelligent technologies affect both teacher agency when co-designing learning design with developers and researchers and when deploying them, typically in hybrid settings (e.g., suggesting formal content learning in non-formal settings). This thesis aims at understanding the potential that intelligent technologies have for empowering teacher agency while identifying emerging ethical risks that could undermine teachers’ role.