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Why Mentor Consultations Work in the Classroom
Traditional primary source analysis asks students to read what historical figures wrote. Mentor consultations go further — students ask questions and get responses grounded in those same primary sources, powered by retrieval-augmented generation from Project Gutenberg texts, speeches, and letters.
The interview format teaches critical thinking naturally. Students can't just ask one question and move on — they must listen to the response, identify what's interesting or incomplete, and formulate a follow-up. This mirrors the Socratic method, historical inquiry, and journalistic interviewing simultaneously.
Teachers see every word of the exchange. There's no black box — you read the full transcript, see how the student engaged, and can assess both the quality of their questions and their understanding of the mentor's perspective.
No student email or personal data is collected. Students join with a display name and a classroom code. Privacy-first design for K-12 environments.