High School teacher Andrew is paying attention. My classroom toolbox so far is NotebookLM + Gems (and potentially other Gemini suite stuff because - Google Classroom.) My kids - definitely respond to visuals and I have two units to cover in under two months before the big test so I need all the help I can get. It does need to be somewhat prescriptive and repeatable though. Got any advice?
On this specifically, compound interest and exponential decay both worked for me in ChatGPT (paid, auto/5.3). Claude made a whole pretty .jsx app ‘Interactive Visualizer’ to show me exponential decay. Tryhard. (Paid, sonnet 4.6/extended)
I can see where these are great for an individual, but I’m not sure how I can use them in my class
(btw when are you going to install OpenClaw and give an explainer on how to do it without buying a Mac mini or exposing all my secrets to the internets? Don’t make me beat you to it … that’d be a fun project to install on the school laptops …)
I really like how Claude manages to make snazzy visuals on the fly for almost anything imaginable (still needs sanity checking for accuracy, but still).
But you're spot on: These interactive explainers are targeted towards the "I'm an individual user who needs to understand a topic" crowd rather than "I'm a teacher who needs to create a complete slide deck for a class."
So I'm sure your NotebookLM setup is way better suited for that. (It certainly doesn't hurt that you have built-in quizzes, flash cards, slide decks, video explainers, etc. by default with it).
As for OpenClaw, I never jumped on the bandwagon. I have my hands full with Claude Code as it is! Besides, I'm waiting for Anthropic to natively incorporate everything that works from OpenClaw. We're already seeing steps towards that with "Remote Control" (can continue a session from your phone and chat wherever you are) and "Scheduled Tasks" (can mimic some of the proactive aspects of OpenClaw).
High School teacher Andrew is paying attention. My classroom toolbox so far is NotebookLM + Gems (and potentially other Gemini suite stuff because - Google Classroom.) My kids - definitely respond to visuals and I have two units to cover in under two months before the big test so I need all the help I can get. It does need to be somewhat prescriptive and repeatable though. Got any advice?
On this specifically, compound interest and exponential decay both worked for me in ChatGPT (paid, auto/5.3). Claude made a whole pretty .jsx app ‘Interactive Visualizer’ to show me exponential decay. Tryhard. (Paid, sonnet 4.6/extended)
Then I tried some stuff I’m going to need. Public Key Cryptography - ChatGPT spit out walls of text followed by walls of visual explainers when pushed to ‘show’. Claude did better making an web site https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/065cd6f9-2167-47c9-aafe-790a1b58c751
I can see where these are great for an individual, but I’m not sure how I can use them in my class
(btw when are you going to install OpenClaw and give an explainer on how to do it without buying a Mac mini or exposing all my secrets to the internets? Don’t make me beat you to it … that’d be a fun project to install on the school laptops …)
That's cool!
I really like how Claude manages to make snazzy visuals on the fly for almost anything imaginable (still needs sanity checking for accuracy, but still).
But you're spot on: These interactive explainers are targeted towards the "I'm an individual user who needs to understand a topic" crowd rather than "I'm a teacher who needs to create a complete slide deck for a class."
So I'm sure your NotebookLM setup is way better suited for that. (It certainly doesn't hurt that you have built-in quizzes, flash cards, slide decks, video explainers, etc. by default with it).
As for OpenClaw, I never jumped on the bandwagon. I have my hands full with Claude Code as it is! Besides, I'm waiting for Anthropic to natively incorporate everything that works from OpenClaw. We're already seeing steps towards that with "Remote Control" (can continue a session from your phone and chat wherever you are) and "Scheduled Tasks" (can mimic some of the proactive aspects of OpenClaw).