I Built an "Edtech" App to Help my Students Think in 2 minutes using only text prompts

This morning, I was playing around with the new Perplexity Labs feature. I had it make me a slide deck comparing the different frontier models and it did pretty well.

Then I had the idea to make me a basic Toulmin model argument generator.

Over the last week, I’ve been teaching the Toulmin model (without calling it that) to very young students. For exercises, I had ChatGPT generate some sample pieces of debate evidence and I put them on a Google Doc where they could identify the parts.

But then I thought — why not just make an app for them to do that?

I tried in Perplexity Labs, but it just gave me a lot of useful information about Toulmin, including some nice graphics, but it didn’t build the app.

So, I tried Claude4 (non paid version) and attached the Perplexity content.

It worked.

You can try it yourself here.

Faculty and students can now BUILD almost any app they want to facilitate learning.

PS. This use of generative AI helps students *think.* I don’t need a study to prove that.