SWOT - Generative AI for Teaching & Learning - SJRSC Spring 2025 by AI Learning Academy

AI Strengths

2025-03-12 13:19:17 UTC

Streamlining workflows for various tasks.

2025-03-12 13:20:25 UTC

Promotes a well informed and practiced user capable of meeting the needs of the workforce.

AI Weaknesses

2025-03-12 13:20:44 UTC

The overuse of the technology taking away the basic skills.

2025-03-12 13:20:48 UTC

Students can use AI as a tutor.

2025-03-12 13:21:12 UTC

Can become a crutch and may lead to issues of intellectual property rights.

AI

2025-03-12 13:21:15 UTC

Opportunity to rethink what we are assessing and why, and make fundamental changes to how we are teaching.

AI is like having a personal assistant; it can aid in so much of what we do.

2025-03-12 13:21:26 UTC

S: Complete work faster and easier at a school, local, and world level

dmikutel — 2025-03-12 13:21:49 UTC

AI is definitely a time saving device in retrieving information, organizing ideas in a useful manner

2025-03-12 13:21:54 UTC

Higher education can lead the way and define acceptable use policies for the workforce.

2025-03-12 13:21:57 UTC

As echoed during an earlier discussion, my ideal for technology and AI is reducing administrative duties and redundant tasks. The everyday things that just don't mean anything. Let technology fill those gaps, e.g., let it bind and print the book so I can later read it.

Strengths

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Efficiency, Tireless, Automation, Curiosity

2025-03-12 13:22:02 UTC

Students don't really learn the material. It becomes a copy and paste activity.

2025-03-12 13:22:08 UTC

It exists, so students can use it in a controlled environment and learn about it before they encounter it in the workforce.
It can allow students to generate very creative content and material for discussion or consideration.

2025-03-12 13:22:31 UTC

Students won't learn critical thinking skills and so will fail tests.

2025-03-12 13:22:33 UTC

Students need to understand AI and how it works.

2025-03-12 13:22:34 UTC

Over analysis will lead to paralysis. Get in the train or be left at the station.

AI Opportunities

2025-03-12 13:22:36 UTC

It can be tailored to building some specific skills.

2025-03-12 13:22:52 UTC

Students who produce work with at (WRITING) aren't learning a critical skill.

AI

2025-03-12 13:23:17 UTC

I think too many students will use it and not develop the critical thinking skills they need, such as the ability to write.

2025-03-12 13:23:18 UTC

W: Completing work faster and easier makes for lazier people, as people are innately lazy and will only work as hard as they are required to do so.

Weaknesses

2025-03-12 13:23:50 UTC

Reliant on other things, Inaccurate, Bias, Crippling Critical/Creative thinking, Constantly Evolving (Can't keep up)

Generative AI

2025-03-12 13:23:58 UTC

I still don't get it. What's the point? I've seen the images, the videos, the prompts. I just don't see it as anything other than a novelty. I mean, Hayao Miyazaki (GOAT) said, "I strongly feel that this [generative AI tech] is an insult to life itself.”

2025-03-12 13:24:04 UTC

O: The ability to utilize a tool to give ourselves an advantage at political, economic, and military levels. At an educational level, it will allow students achieve their goals faster and easier, whatever their goals may be.

dmikutel — 2025-03-12 13:24:08 UTC

Represents a tool that can replace actual learning, students may not comprehend information that has been developed through AI tools. AI may enable actual critical thinking activities, Black Box models may make it difficult or impossible to replicate outcomes

Strengths

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Students will be able to use AI to be able to generate stronger work product and will be able to better compete with others in the workforce that are using it. Productivity will increase as through using these tools students will be able to accomplish more.

2025-03-12 13:24:33 UTC

AI really does have the potential to transform the ed space and the experience students have. They will also have these experiences in other places in their lives and will expect that kind of things in school.

2025-03-12 13:24:33 UTC

T: The ability of an enemy to utilize a tool against us at a political, economic, or military level. For an educational level, why would students work if they don't have to do so? Would you?

AI Threats

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It will take away some of the basic skills that will be needed to build upon more advanced skills.

2025-03-12 13:24:44 UTC

It can help refine and enhance communication if used properly.

2025-03-12 13:25:07 UTC

It is a valuable tool that can be used in so many diverse ways, depending upon the role of the user.

2025-03-12 13:25:09 UTC

We are at a point where we can rethink higher education—our purpose and what we require.

2025-03-12 13:25:16 UTC

Honestly, I'm coming up empty. I can see opportunities, but not any where I think the reward outweighs the risks.

Opps

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Customizable, Accessibility (ADA Compliance), Exposure, Because of efficiency can devote to other content

2025-03-12 13:26:31 UTC

Humans end up being the power behind the machines—we will be riding stationary bikes to produce the energy required to run the machine.

Weaknesses

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Students may rely too much on the tools and become less functional when or if these tools are unavailable or temporarily interrupted. Students may have issues with critical thinking through complex problems and leave that to AI suggestions.

2025-03-12 13:27:03 UTC

INSTRUCTORS, in addition to students, can rely too heavily on it.

2025-03-12 13:27:10 UTC

Are students who use gen ai to produce things really learning?

The threat is that students use gen ai and really only ever learn to use gen ai and not anything else.

2025-03-12 13:27:18 UTC

It hurts Miyazaki's feelings, and that's beyond forgiveness.

Threats

2025-03-12 13:27:28 UTC

Students may not learn anything if the tools are implemented improperly.

2025-03-12 13:28:23 UTC

It can be used as a tool for everyone involved in a student’s educational journey…student, instructor, and administrator.

Threat

2025-03-12 13:28:57 UTC

If we don't embrace, could be left behind; sustainability; damage to interpersonal relationships;

Lack of transparency can lead to inaccurate output or output that skews the user politically, economically, etc

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dmikutel — 2025-03-12 13:29:15 UTC

AI outputs can be reviewed and edited, they are widely accessible, analytical tool for decision making can be used to look at more data at a faster rate, we have an opportunity to learn and guide a tool that is changing every day

2025-03-12 13:29:27 UTC

Excessive reliance upon it can negate the benefits of its use.

2025-03-12 13:30:42 UTC

AI is a timesaver. (speed, efficiency, and capacity). You are able to do more things.

It increases creativity. Helps to create ideas for the classroom.

2025-03-12 13:30:50 UTC

It could promote laziness. Because we are using AI as a shortcut.

How do you know the human element is there?

dmikutel — 2025-03-12 13:31:00 UTC

May develop such that we become overly dependent on its use, may tend to further drive differences between rich and poor, schools with less resources may not access the same tools if costs increase.

2025-03-12 13:31:10 UTC

We can teach students how to use in the workforce.

We can enhance our own skillsets as instructors.

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Professors taking shortcuts.

Student misuse. Instructor misuse.

If it becomes too much like self-learning, why utilize the human element.