Claude for Education: How Anthropic is Shaping AI’s Role in Learning with Drew Bent

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Drew Bent leads Education as part of Anthropic's Beneficial Deployments. He also co-founded the tutoring non-profit Schoolhouse.world with Sal Khan. Prior to that, he wrote code at Khan Academy, taught high school math, and has been tutoring students for over a decade. Drew has degrees in physics & CS from MIT, and an education master's from Stanford. 💡 5 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode: - Why Anthropic made education one of Claude’s first real-world focus areas - Insights from Anthropic’s Education Report on how students actually use AI - How Claude’s “learning mode” fosters Socratic dialogue and reduces “brain rot” - The tension between LLMs as answer machines vs. pedagogically sound tutors - What the future of AI tutoring, peer learning, and collaborative tools could look like ✨ Episode Highlights: 01:13 Drew Bent’s journey from teaching and tutoring to leading education at Anthropic 02:50 Why education emerged as a top use case for Claude 04:20 Findings from Anthropic’s Education Report: how students really use AI 06:59 Claude and Bloom’s Taxonomy—strengths, gaps, and risks of cognitive offloading 09:22 Building learning modes: shifting from answer machines to Socratic dialogue 12:53 How Drew’s tutoring background informs AI product design 17:26 The role of AI in fostering—not replacing—human-to-human learning 21:00 Students’ call for “learning mode” to avoid brain rot 26:41 Sneak peek: Anthropic’s upcoming learning mode for Claude Code 😎 Stay updated with Edtech Insiders! Follow our Podcast on: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4PeMaMt... Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/f4d... Sign up for the Edtech Insiders newsletter: https://edtechinsiders.substack.com/ Follow Edtech Insiders on LinkedIn!: https://www.linkedin.com/company/edtech-insiders/