AI Digital Media - Presentations

AI tools can significantly reduce the time needed to create engaging and visually appealing presentations, incorporating multimedia elements, animations, and interactive quizzes that capture students' attention while allowing educators to focus more on teaching and interacting with students. AI generated presentations can be used to create interactive lessons within the traditional setting or in a flipped classroom. AI is also an excellent tool to help create multiple versions of presentations tailored to different learners, ensuring that all students have access to content that matches their abilities.

*Educators must be mindful of copyright laws, privacy and security concerns, the potential for AI to perpetuate biases or make mistakes, and the importance of teaching students to use these tools responsibly.

WHY Important 

Generating AI presentations empowers educators to create visually engaging, personalized, and effective learning experiences that cater to the diverse needs and preferences of today's students. 

WHAT Will Be Learned 

The focus will be on:

  • Tool selection 
  • Curriculum integration to create content
  • Customization for diverse learning styles  
  • Pedagogical strategies 

Examples of tools that may be useful for this task:


Reflective Practices

References

Guiding Reflection Questions

Suggested Action Steps

Create Slides for Google or Powerpoint with an AI Chatbot, AI for Education [Prompt Library] Kickstart your AI prompting with these examples.

Why Should I Read This?

This resource offers a prompt example that can be modeled or inspired by to create similar prompts for creating presentation slides.

How can you use AI generated presentations for teaching purposes in your grade-level or subject area?

Ethical Use 

Modeling use of prompts and how good ones are structured is an opportunity for students to build understanding of what goes into the process. Avoid including personal and copyrighted information. Follow up questions to prompt output is crucial to getting quality outputs.

Identify a tool that you have access to that can be used by you and students to generate presentations.

Test drive it for extended use in your presentations.


Create Astonishing Presentations… Develop PowerPoints Using ChatGPT, Guru Tech Solutions, August 2023 (Video 8 minutes 35 seconds)

Shares how to utilize ChatGPT to create PowerPoint presentations. 

Why Should I Read This?

Offers a way to take a developed outline to becoming a draft set of slides. The time saved in this process is used to focus on the editing and revision process.

How can the slide design process elevate the skill development for creating an effective and informative outline?

Ethical Use 

It’s important to review presentation content to ensure accuracy of content and images (for bias and diversity) when using AI.

Generate a few presentations using the video as a guide. See how the results change with different outlines, such as lesson plan steps. 

15 Interactive Presentation Ideas to Elevate Engagement, Venngage, August 2023 

Ideas for adding interactive elements to your presentations. 

Why Should I Read This?

Quality presentations is a two-way street where the participants are active and engaged. This article offers a variety of ideas that can be incorporated into good presentations. AI can assist with the development of needed components.

Consider the instructional value of AI generated presentations and how they enhance teaching and learning. 

Ethical Use 

It is important to make every effort to ensure ethical use of copyright materials in your presentations? 

Consider adding interactive elements (e.g. polling, quiz questions) to personalize the learning. Think about how you could differentiate the presentation for various learners. 


1. Turning resources (readings, handouts, videos, etc.) into slides

Purpose: AI helps teachers quickly convert complex resources into structured slides, ensuring that key takeaways from readings, videos, or articles are visually engaging and easy to digest for students. This process saves time while maintaining instructional quality, making learning materials more accessible and interactive.

Brisk Teaching: Prompt Transcript & Output l Video Walkthrough (2 minutes 34 seconds)

2. Creating Slides based on Topics or Standards

Purpose: AI can assist in generating slides aligned with specific subjects and state standards, ensuring that lessons remain focused, consistent, and curriculum-driven. This helps educators maintain alignment with required learning objectives while also incorporating visuals and structured explanations to enhance student understanding.

    Slidesgo: Prompt Transcript & Output  l Video Walkthrough (2 minutes 27 seconds)

    PopAI: Prompt Transcript & Output l Video Walkthrough (2 minutes 48 seconds)

3. Creating Slides for Caregivers or Community Members

Purpose: Teachers can use AI to design clear, caregiver-friendly slides for events like parent-teacher nights, workshops, or community meetings. These slides can simplify complex topics, such as literacy strategies or student learning milestones, ensuring that caregivers have the tools and knowledge to support their children’s education at home.

    Slidesgo: Prompt Transcript & Output l Video Walkthrough (2 minutes 37 seconds)


Tips for Using AI Slides Generation

Current AI Capability

Tips for Using

AI works best with specific, structured prompts—avoid vague descriptions. 

Example: Instead of 'Create slides on the water cycle,' use 'Generate a visually engaging slide on the water cycle, including labeled diagrams for evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection, with a student-friendly layout.'

AI-generated slides should be aligned with curriculum standards to support instructional goals. 

You can include the state standard (e.g., Michigan Science Standard MS-ESS2-4) in your AI prompt to generate more relevant content; if not using an educational-based platform, you may need to share the content of the standard.

AI can sometimes generate misleading or incorrect visuals (e.g., historical inaccuracies, incorrect labels in diagrams). 

Always review and fact-check AI-generated slides before presenting them to students.

AI-generated slides may not follow best practices for text size, contrast, and layout. 

Ensure slides include: 

  • Font size: 24pt or larger for classroom projection. 

  • High-contrast text for readability. 

  • Minimal text per slide to avoid information overload.

  • Alternative text for images

  • Avoidance of excessive animations

AI can generate stunning visuals, but slides often need human refinement for clarity. 

Use AI for images, charts, and layouts, then customize slides with your own instructional text, examples, and explanations.

AI-generated slides may lack diversity or reinforce stereotypes unless explicitly guided. 

When generating visuals, specify diverse representation in gender, ethnicity, and cultural backgrounds in your prompt.

AI can help create different versions of slides for students, parents, and staff.

Modify prompts to adapt the same topic for different audiences (e.g., simplified visuals for parent workshops, detailed slides for advanced students).

AI-generated slides are a starting point, not a final lesson. 

Treat AI as a drafting tool, then revise, add context, and personalize content for your students. The AI output will need your human touch to create a quality product. The ability to draft a presentation via AI, which you can then ‘make your own’ (e.g. adding interactive elements and differentiating for various learners), is a great way to start. 


Test Slides Before Presenting

AI-generated slides may need layout adjustments before being used in class. Tip: Preview slides on a projector or screen to ensure they are clear, legible, and engaging for students.