Subj : Claude goes to college an
To : All
From : Mike Powell
Date : Sat Apr 05 2025 09:39 am
Claude goes to college and wants to be your study buddy
Date:
Sat, 05 Apr 2025 03:00:00 +0000
Description:
Anthropics new Claude for education offers an AI tool for students to support
learning over replacing homework.
FULL STORY
Anthropic has a new version of its AI assistant Claude aimed at the world of
higher education. The new Claude for Education model offers universities a
way of embedding a less disruptive version of AI into classrooms and offices.
Claude for Education is designed to help students with their studies without
just doing it for them, and to help faculty customize their curricula. Though
Claude, like any other AI chatbot, could write a paper that a student might
try to pass off as their own, Claude for Education does try to address that
issue with the new Learning Mode. Claude will switch from just answering
questions to responding with questions of its own in a nod to the Socratic
method of teaching.
Ask for the answer, and Claude might instead ask for ways to think about the
problem or what proof could support a thesis. Presumably, it would respond to
a question about the airspeed of an unladen swallow by asking which
subspecies the swallow belongs to. It can also make a study guide based on
materials you upload. That's essentially a feature of Google's NotebookLM
too, but has obvious utility in college. You can see how that works below.
Claude college
Anthropic wants students to consider AI less of a homework machine and more
of a thoughtful TA. Since more than a quarter of teens use ChatGPT alone for
homework, it's an issue that needs to be addressed. Nobody wants to create a
generation of students who just copy-paste AI output into their essays.
And some schools are responding. Northeastern University has signed on as
Anthropics first official design partner, offering Claude access to 50,000
students, faculty, and staff across its 13 campuses. Champlain College and
the London School of Economics and Political Science are also among the first
adopters.
OpenAI has its own education-focused tools, and CEO Sam Altman even announced
that ChatGPT Plus would be free to college students through May. Claudes
approach is more focused, like the deal OpenAI made with Arizona State
University to incorporate its AI at the school.
Anthropic is looking to widen Claude's adoption at schools through its new
Claude Campus Ambassadors program, which gets students to work with the
company in rolling out educational initiatives. Theyre also offering API
credits to students who want to build cool projects using Claude.
Of course, the real test isnt how many students use Claude, but how they use
it. Because as much as I love the idea of AI making life easier for students
and professors, theres a line between using tech to learn and using it to
dodge learning entirely. And that line is, well, blurry. It will be necessary
to keep watching how these tools are used and whether they actually help
students learn in meaningful, human ways.
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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/claude-goes-to-col
lege-and-wants-to-be-your-study-buddy
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