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AI in education and study
How students, teachers and parents are using AI to learn and teach: lesson plans, grading with clear criteria, summaries, practice tests, explanations of hard material and exam prep. The best accounts use AI as a tutor that asks questions, not as a shortcut around the effort. There are also cases about the limits, such as wrong answers delivered with confidence. Adapt the prompts to the grade level, the subject and the way you study.
25 cases, 9 of them from Brazil, from newest to oldest. The tools cited most here are ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity Comet. People who show up most in these accounts: teacher, student, and parent.
The cases
25 cases
01Reserving public library books with an agent
Eleanor Konik asks for chess books for her son and the agent places holds on the titles through the library website.
02Agents search for new magnetic materials
A team of agents ran simulations and found candidates for room-temperature magnetic semiconductors.
03Assessing, teaching a tailored lesson and reassessing with an agent
A former teacher trained an agent to give assessments, build lessons for the gaps and reassess.
04Engineer compares circuit simulation with the real oscilloscope
Lucas Gerads connected Claude to a LeCroy oscilloscope and a SPICE simulator.
05Systematic literature review with an agent
A researcher showed an agent that creates PICO questions, screening criteria and a PRISMA diagram.
06AI browser completed a Coursera assignment in seconds
Fortune showed a developer telling Comet to "complete the assignment", and it did a 45-minute job on its own.
07Homeschooling mom uses agents for lesson plans
Jesse Genet photographed textbooks and an agent turned the material into illustrated lesson plans.
08A 12-day homeschool curriculum built from PDFs
Michael Crist uploaded the 12 PDFs his wife used to sort by hand, and Claude built the daily schedule.
09A professor tests whether an agent can take the exam for the student
Michael Lomuscio created an Algebra course in Canvas and watched Comet build and then answer its own quiz.
10Teacher generates custom interactive lessons for each class
Given a text, the students' level and vocabulary, Claude Code returns an HTML lesson with flashcards and exercises.
11Educator publishes an interactive online course with an agent
Manus planned the modules, built the site and published it; styling errors were fixed using screenshots.
12A Great Gatsby unit planned by an agent
Ethan Mollick asked for a high school plan with reading broken into sections and tasks tied to the curriculum.
13AI business course and a 318-page ebook
Daria Cupareanu had Manus create and publish a course and turn a 100-prompt ebook into a full-length book.
14Pharmaceutical researcher finds protein structures with the browser
A plain-language request pulled up the three most recent GSK3B complexes in the Protein Data Bank.
15A history teacher builds a game about Rome for their students
A middle school teacher learned Godot and used Claude to unblock the code for an RPG set in Gaul in 51 BC.
16Using AI as a tutor without letting it solve the exercise for you
A Java student shared a prompt that makes AI guide, rather than hand over, Beecrowd solutions.
17Automating the grading of practice exams for an entire school
The IT coordinator of a school in Duque de Caxias built a workflow that grades practice exams from several teachers and returns indicators by class.
18Build an app to study for the driver's license theory exam (CNH)
A developer used AI agents to build a study app for the Detran driving test.
19Teacher Shows Students How They'd Look in Their Dream Careers
A state-school teacher in Campinas used ChatGPT to generate images of her students as adults in the careers they dream of.
20Making Enem Flashcards with AI
A public school student in Mogi das Cruzes asks AI for flashcards summarizing school subjects.
21Turning a Text into a Podcast with NotebookLM
Simon Willison tested Audio Overview, which generates a conversation between two hosts about your documents.
22Explaining Cutting-Edge Scientific Research to an 8-Year-Old
A father used NotebookLM with a geology paper to see how much his son could understand.
23State School System Grades Handwritten Essays with AI
Minas Gerais adopted a platform that evaluates handwritten essays and gives students immediate feedback.
24Passing Five Notary Exams by "Teaching" ChatGPT
A notary public who passed at age 23 used his own study summaries to ask ChatGPT for practice tests and oral exam questions.
25Public school student uses AI to see step-by-step solutions
Admitted to computer engineering at UFPB, he asked ChatGPT to solve problems step by step.