Google on Monday announced A series of updates intended to bring their Gemini AI and other AI-powered tools deeper into the classroom. At the ISTE EDTECH conference, the technology giant introduced more than 30 AI tools for educators, a version of the Gemini -App built for education, increased access to its collaborative video -making of Google VIDS, and other tools for managed Chromebooks.
The updates represent a major AI push in the Edtech space, where educators are already struggling to adapt to as AIs, Like AI chat rooms and beginners who promise to help you “cheat on everythingEnter the learning environment.
School old children and young people today are more inclined to ask Chatgpt for help with their homework (or even do it for them) than they ask a teacher to explain the concepts again. In higher ED, meanwhile, colleges are wrestling with Whether or not plagiarized detectors can even identify AI-written content.
As part of this interruption, Google is pushing AI tools, saying it believes that “responsible” can help operate “more engaging and personality learning experiences”, when used in conjunction with human-guided teaching.
Since Advertising Its plans to bring Gemini to the classroom last year, Google Monday said that its Suite Gemini AI for educators is now available for free to all Google Workspace accounts for education.
This includes More than 30 new featuresAs the ability for teachers to think about ideas, generate lesson plans and personifying content for students using AI technology.
Over the next several months, Google will give teachers The ability to create interactive study guides using the AI -Research tool Notebook lmalong with their classroom materials.
Teachers can also create custom versions of the twins AI called “Gems“Who will work as Ai -experts This helps students who need extra support or want to better understand the topic.
This basically just does an activity that students are already doing – asking AI chat to explain a topic or answer questions – and redirect that activity back to Google’s own AI technology, where it was specifically trained on the teacher’s own classroom materials.
Soon teachers will also be able to offer students real-time support for the AI-powered reading booth when you use the Read together in a classroom tool.
Google expands basic access to its AI-operated video creator, Google VIDSAlso, to make it available to every Google Workspace for education users. Teachers can use the tool to make educational videos, while students can use videos for things like book reports or other tasks.
The company is also Rolling Outside a series of new features designed to track students’ progress against learning standards and skills, see analyzes of student activity and engagement, better secure gemini -using data and data in Gmail, manage, which has access to AI tools like Gemini and Notebook LM, have better control over Google -Waiting.
Additionally, along with a handful of updates for managed Chromebooks, Google has introduced a new instruction mode called class tools. This allows teachers to connect directly with their students via Google Classroom and share content to the children’s screens, such as videos, articles, slides and quizzes. These tools can adapt to the student’s own language, if needed, and are designed to keep children focused on learning by restricting browsing to specific tabs.
