Yes — AI is exceptionally fast at generating personalised, context-specific examples on demand. Give it the student’s industry, situation, or question and it will produce a relevant example in seconds that you can share directly in the chat or read aloud.
Why Generic Examples Fall Flat
When you teach a concept and a student says “can you give me an example?”, the most powerful response is one that connects directly to their world. A fitness coach and a tax consultant may both be learning the same AI prompting technique, but an example about email marketing for a gym feels completely different from one about client onboarding for an accounting firm. Generic examples — the kind you prepare in advance — work for part of the room. Specific examples work for the person who asked.
The problem is that you cannot pre-prepare specific examples for every possible student context. With AI, you don’t have to.
How to Generate On-the-Fly Examples with AI
When a student asks for an example and you want to make it relevant to them, ask a quick clarifying question: “What kind of work do you do?” or “What would you use this for?” Then, while they’re answering, open your Claude tab and type: “Give me a specific example of [concept] for a [student’s context]. Keep it practical and under three sentences.” The response comes back before the student has finished explaining their situation.
You can then paste it directly into the Zoom chat — which has the added benefit of making it a tangible, shareable resource the student can take away — or read it aloud and expand on it with your own commentary. Either way, the student gets an example that fits their world rather than a hypothetical that doesn’t quite land. Over a full workshop, this kind of personalisation transforms the session from a presentation into a dialogue.
What This Means for Educators
The ability to generate personalised examples instantly makes your live sessions more valuable than any recorded course. A video cannot respond to a student asking “what would this look like for me?” You can — and AI makes that response fast, accurate, and specific. That responsiveness is one of the clearest competitive advantages of live, human-facilitated learning in a world where recorded content is everywhere.
The Simple Rule
Ask the student one clarifying question, type their context into AI, and deliver a specific example in under a minute. Do this consistently and your students will tell others that your sessions actually apply to their real situation — not just to a theoretical case study.