[lemmox]

Interesting prompts! IME the quality of the answers the users give to the ChatGPT questions in these prompts will make or break the experience.

I played around with this use case in the spring when my teenage daughter was looking for extra test prep materials. At first the experience was interesting but there was an "AI uncanny valley" shaped problem: the material just didn't seem to fit. It felt wrong.

This uncanny valley was significantly reduced, even eliminated in some instances, by including the entirety of our school district's online material about the course; information about the core competencies (across communication, thinking, personal & societal), the big ideas, the curricular competency & content about the learning standards. Our district has a pretty good website with all of this information laid out for each course and grade level.

Including all of this information in the prompt context resulted in relevant and harmonious content when asking to generate course outlines, student study-prep handouts, and even sample study session pre-tests (although ChatGPT wasn't strong at reliably creating answer sheets for the pre-tests).

Context is key!

[lemmox]

An interesting trick I found here was to ask ChatGPT to produce tables of concept definitions and include a metaphor for each concept to help understanding. It was quite good at coming up with metaphors and that actually felt kind of magical.