SWOT Your Time: Assessing Which AI-Tools You Need

Welcome to Teacher’s AIed: the newsletter about AI in the K12 Classroom.

How AI will affect K12 Classrooms is complex. Each week, we curate knowledge for educators about the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of AI and K12 education.

This week’s edition is an exercise in leveraging the SWOT framework to determine the usefulness of adopting new AI and tech tools into your administrative work.

A recent EdWeek article outlined “7 Duties Teachers Would Gladly Stop Doing.” The list included lesson planning, lunch and recess duty, grading, managing disruptive behavior, professional development, and meetings. The Teacher’s AIed team has written about lesson planning and grading. However, sadly, we’re still searching for AI and tech solutions for managing disruptive behavior and lunch and recess duty. (PS, we are preparing some AI PD and would love your input!)

Today, we’ll discuss automating meetings, especially parent-teacher meetings, and use this frame to help you determine the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of incorporating a new tool into your toolkit.

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We’ll leverage the SWOT framework to assess the usefulness of incorporating new technologies into your administrative work, like scheduling meetings. From this framework, we’ll determine the value of learning a new tool, teaching your stakeholders (parents and colleagues) about the new device, and comparing the new tool to the processes you previously used.