Threat/Gift Matrix — Interactive Assessment Session 1 · Exercise · Online

Threat/Gift Matrix — Interactive Assessment

Map AI's gifts and threats for your discipline. Complete in Session 1; revisit in Session 7 to track how your matrix evolved as the course addressed items.

Honesty guard

"Fill what you honestly observe, not what you wish were true. Each item must name a real course. An inflated threat list or a vague gift steals your own delta — the matrix exists to measure what your guideline must answer."

Entries are temporary until saved.

Fill every quadrant: ≥3 items in Teaching and Assessment, ≥2 items in Campus Life. Each item must name a concrete course. Use the button to mark the single most urgent threat and the single most undervalued gift. Click to remove an entry.

Gift Threat
Teaching
Assessment
Campus Life
⭕ Most undervalued gift: ⭕ Most urgent threat:

Session comparison

When you load an S1 and an S7 snapshot, this section shows how your matrix evolved.

Load two saved sessions (an S1 baseline and an S7 retake) to see a comparison.


  1. Fill every quadrant — minimum 3 items in Teaching and Assessment, minimum 2 items in Campus Life.
  2. Name a course for each item — concrete enough that someone in the room could say "yes, that's my class."
  3. Mark the single most urgent threat (⭕ red) and the single most undervalued gift (⭕ gold) using the buttons next to each entry.
  4. Save your snapshot — name it "S1 Baseline". Retake in Session 7 as "S7 Retake" and compare.
Debrief lens

"Notice how many threats are actually assessment-design problems wearing a technology costume. Hold that thought until tomorrow morning."

Teaching × Gift
  • Real-time Socratic dialogue partner — prompt-tune a bot to explain Weber's Protestant Ethic from three standpoints (Sociology of Religion)
  • Instant case comparison engine — AI summary of 20 comparative-politics cases in 2 minutes (Comparative Politics)
  • Role-play opponent always available — AI as a negotiation counterpart in diplomatic history simulations (Diplomatic History)
Teaching × Threat
  • Disappearance of low-stakes reading — students stop reading primary sources because AI can summarise 40 pages (Modern Political Thought)
  • Loss of drafting as thinking — first-draft submission is replaced by AI-generated text (any writing-intensive course)
  • Homogenised discussion — all tutorial contributions converge on the AI-generated consensus (Literary Criticism)
Assessment × Gift
  • AI-as-examiner for oral defence prep — submit a written answer, then defend it orally against an AI that probes weak spots (Capstone Seminar)
  • Rubric-verified take-home essays — attach an AI-verification log showing every prompt and revision (any essay course)
  • Personalised feedback at scale — AI drafts formative feedback on a 200-student cohort within hours (Intro to Sociology)
Assessment × Threat
  • ⭕ Most urgent threat: Take-home essay is dead — AI can produce a B-grade 2,500-word essay on Foucault in 90 seconds with zero reading (Social Theory)
  • Detection arms race is unwinnable — false-positive rates of 61%+ against non-native English writers erode trust (any multilingual cohort)
  • Portfolio authenticity eroded — AI can generate, polish, and reflect on multiple portfolio entries in minutes (Education Studies practicum)
Campus Life × Gift
  • AI study-buddy on 24/7 — personalised quiz generation, flashcard creation, Socratic Q&A for exam prep
  • Mental-health triage layer — AI-powered first-contact for counselling services
Campus Life × Threat
  • Polarised informal learning — students who prompt well gain a compounding advantage; a new divide based on prompt literacy
  • Social-fabric bypass — WhatsApp study groups where one member runs the AI prompt and everyone copies

Full sample with rationale available in 05-print-pack/threat-gift-matrix-sample.html.