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   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   
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