>if you can't be arsed to write it, I can't be arsed to read it
I don't write my own textbooks either ;) The fact is that the slides are just an aid. Teaching is performance art. A good teacher uses slides as a handy scaffold, the magic happens in person, when the teacher *presents*
>A good presentation is INFINITELY better than a mediocre one.
of course, and perfect is the enemy of good. I know it would be nice for every lesson and every presentation to be absolute perfection, but that does slightly conflict with reality.
>creating a GOOD one requires a deep understanding of the matter
which teachers have
>, a cohesive plan and direction for the talk to go,
which teachers have spent decades perfecting
>and the ability to imbue your personality into the slides as well, so they're complimentary to the lesson.
Yes of course. I think there's a slight mismatch with regard to how you're perceiving the tool. The AI generated content is more of a starting point. As a teacher I'm constantly refining adding to and removing content from *all* the resources I collect. There is no one-size fits all. It's no different with SlideHero.
I'll give an example. I've taught introductory Computer Systems to year 9 students 2 times per year to around 4 classes a semester for about 20 years. That's probably close to 200 times I've deliverd that course. I can teach the content in my sleep. I still find it useful to generate a slideshow because a) it's 99% faster for me to review the content than it is to write it by hand, b) there are areas like networking that I just don't enjoy so much and GPT does a better job than I do here and c) interestingly gpt will surface new ideas and perspectives I hadn't considered before!
Remember that the slides are fully editable. There is little expectation that a teacher will hit "generate" and present exactly what the ai produces. In the exact same way as I'll find a good YouTube video, but won't play it all. I'll skip around to the parts that are relevant to my particular class and sometimes even to a particular cohort.
>I know teachers are swamped with too much work and not enough time to do it in, but this feels like the classic Technologists curse
Believe me, AI in the classroom is a *massive* force multiplier. Good teachers can be great with AI.
>I mean, what if the answer is fighting to get more teachers with more time available to prepare their classroom materials
Perfect, but I got a class of year 9 history students tomorrow and I'm teaching a new topic that I'm not familiar with... a little help from ai is going to make my lesson *better* not worse, not least of all becuase I have more time to devote to other areas of prep.