Make explainer videos for any article on the fly
Scrimba plugged an LLM into its interactive video format and built HN.watch, which generates explainer videos for HN posts.
AI agent use cases: Education
Real education projects people built with AI agents, with recipes.
Use cases
Build a lesson series and adapt it for another year group
A New Zealand teacher used Gemini with his own resources to build an ANZAC Day lesson series, then adapted it for another year group.
Build an interactive physics explorer with your agent
A builder made a free, open-source gravity, orbits and time-dilation explorer with his OpenClaw agent and GPT-6 Astra.
Build one place for students to find scattered opportunities
A student built Opportunity Radar with GitHub Copilot to collect internships and other opportunities spread across many sites.
Study by voice with ChatGPT grounded in your own course materials
A learner built a small MCP service that feeds course content to ChatGPT for voice study sessions and logs progress.
Ground Chinese study sessions in your own textbook with an MCP server
A learner OCR’d his Chinese textbooks into a stateless MCP server so quizzes stick to the textbook only.
Build a live engagement tool for your classroom
A teacher used Claude Code to build TeachChat, a free classroom tool with teacher, projector and student views.
Generate a video course with games on any topic
Keet generates Duolingo-style courses on any topic, with short explainer videos, quizzes and a roadmap.
Give students a Socratic AI tutor on a personal learning path
A former teacher’s startup diagnoses K-12 skill gaps and pairs adaptive lessons with an AI tutor that guides without giving away answers.
Plan curriculum and analyze grades with Claude Cowork
A teacher says Claude Cowork saves hours on curriculum design, grading, slides and analyzing student grades.
Generate a hands-on tutorial to learn a new technical topic yourself
Lathe uses agent skills in Claude Code, Cursor or Codex to write a sourced, hands-on tutorial that you then work through by typing the code yourself.
Replace worksheets with interactive HTML lessons
A Korean ESL teacher uses Claude Code to make browser lessons with vocabulary cards, quizzes, a teacher mode and progress bars.
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