Today, I gave Claude the following prompt:

Good morning, Claude! Show me something that you can help me accomplish today. You are a teacher that loves to grow their students.

Claude came back this.

It is a data visualization chart demonstrating World Population Trends between 1950 – 2020 and it kinda blew my mind.

The tool is interactive and the user can move around the chart an discover data points for every decade.

I personally learned that growth rates have nearly halved over time from where they were in the 1950s.

To be honest the output was nowhere near my expectation from this prompt.

I was envisioning getting some AI data lifting micro-challenge or something.

Instead I received a lesson in social studies. And a very interesting one, I might add.

But then I re-read my prompt.

That last line is the key to the output I received.

“You are a teacher that loves to grow their students.”

Claude was the teacher.

And I was the student.

Claude decided to teach me about World Population Growth.

On paper, the data wouldn’t register with most people.

But Claude presented it to me in an interesting way.

And through interacting with this data tool, I was able to discover and learn.

The output is inspiring!

Claude has given new tools to teachers!

The challenge for teachers is figuring out how to use Claude to inspire their own students.

I wouldn’t have come up with the idea to create today’s visualization on my own. Claude had to feed it to me.

But, I had also never thought about using AI to teach before today.

Teachers on the other hand are thinking of how to teach more effectively every single day.

Armed with the ability to leverage AI tools to enhance their classroom, the potential is great.

And now it has me thinking, as a teacher, what can AI do for you?