Create simulated environments for stakeholder interaction
Generative AI tools can be used in the classroom for students to play out many real-world scenarios and test their ideas/ impact on their decisions. Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT can be prompted to take on the role of different stakeholders from unique cultural backgrounds, or clients with different personas for students from management and marketing fields to practice communication skills, idea pitch, or even the impact of their decisions on different stakeholders.
Design simulator
Critical analysis of AI-generated responses and the application of knowledge. Students are tasked with designing a drug that can be used to treat ageing. Students are requested to use generative AI to develop ideas that can be empirically tested. Learning develops as students ‘curate’ AI responses for factual accuracy, efficacy, and practicality.
Generative AI as an ideation assistant
ChatGPT and other generative AI tools can be used to create highly specified new content quickly making them useful tools for ideation, both for generating alternative ideas and in avoiding some ideation pitfalls (e.g. fixating on the first idea, having a preconceived notion of what a good solution should look like, and being reluctant to share ideas due to anxiety, embarrassment, or having strong ownership of ideas). GenAI can be used for conceptual work, marketing, strategy development, and many other use-cases. We can mirror this use in class, and ask students to start an activity / project with a GenAI and then assess the outputs and narrow down to one or more options to pursue for the project itself.