Make back to school season easier with these AI features

Sep 03, 2024

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Jennifer Holland

Director, Google for Education

Whether you’re perusing your syllabi, decorating your schoolroom aliases touring your child’s campus, back-to-school play tin bring tons of excitement, and possibly a small stress, too. As 3 of my 4 kids caput disconnected to schoolhouse this week, I wanted to stock immoderate of nan caller Google features and AI devices that tin thief america each make this schoolhouse twelvemonth successful.

For learners

With much ways to inquire questions, study caller concepts and get interactive practice, these AI features supply powerful ways for students (mostly 18 and older) to deepen knowing and make learning much personal.*

• Chat pinch Gemini utilizing school-issued Google accounts. We’ve heard from acquisition institutions that privateness is apical of mind erstwhile evaluating which generative AI devices to use. With further privateness protections rolling retired now, Google Workspace for Education users 18 and older tin chat pinch Gemini knowing their information isn’t being utilized aliases reviewed by anyone to train aliases amended AI models. And successful nan coming months, we’re besides bringing Gemini to teen students’ school-issued Google accounts aft taking observant steps to thief guarantee it's safe and responsible for usage successful schoolroom settings.
  
• Study smarter pinch Gemini. Recent updates see responses from OpenStax textbooks and much opportunities for interactive practice. In Gemini Advanced, users 18 and older tin upload documents and inquire questions astir them, and nan caller Learning coach Gem will supply study guidance tailored to you.
  
• Enhance your learning pinch YouTube. Now erstwhile you watch an world video connected YouTube, you’ll spot applicable definitions of cardinal concepts straight connected nan watch page. Our caller conversational AI instrumentality for users 18 and up makes it imaginable to figuratively raise your manus while watching a video to inquire clarifying questions, get adjuvant explanations aliases return a quiz.
  
• Make materials approachable pinch NotebookLM. Users 18 and up tin spell from accusation to insights pinch nan summarization features and chat functionality successful NotebookLM, our note-taking and investigation adjunct powered by AI. Now you tin moreover upload image-based PDFs (like handwritten notes aliases ocular diagrams), successful summation to Docs, Slides, web URLs and more.
  
• Learn much astir what you spot with Google Lens. If you’re stuck connected a homework problem successful math, history aliases science, you tin return a photograph pinch Lens successful nan Google app to get step-by-step help, truthful you tin study to lick it connected your own. Attending a people speech virtually from your machine and want to find retired much astir an equation written connected nan board? Google Lens successful Chrome desktop now allows you to select, hunt and inquire questions without leaving your existent tab truthful you tin prime that equation correct from nan video and study much astir it successful nan Chrome broadside panel.
  
• Understand topics faster pinch AI Overviews successful Search: Earlier this year, we launched AI Overviews to thief you find accusation much easily. Whether you’re studying mathematics aliases creation history, English aliases biology, you tin inquire questions like, “Explain nan relationship betwixt lightning and thunder” and get nan gist on pinch resources to click retired and dive deeper.

For educators

AI tin thief springiness educators clip backmost to put successful themselves and their students, while supercharging their productivity and productivity.

• Try retired 30+ caller Google for Education features. We precocious released new AI-powered devices crossed Chromebooks and Google Workspace for Education to thief educators make learning successful schoolhouse settings much individual and engaging, for illustration bringing Gemini to Chromebook Plus and piloting Gemini successful Google Classroom. With Google Classroom’s 10th birthday, we launched caller features that thief pinch reading, merchandise integrations and data-driven instruction.
  
• Demystify AI pinch nan Gen AI for Educators course. This two-hour self-paced course is designed to thief teachers prevention clip connected mundane tasks, personalize instruction to meet student needs and heighten lessons and activities successful imaginative ways pinch generative AI devices — nary erstwhile AI acquisition required.
  
• Personalize Gemini pinch Gems, civilization AI experts for each kinds of topics. In a fewer easy steps, you tin picture what you want your Gem to do and really you’d for illustration it to respond. Gems will past thief you complete tasks and scope goals based connected your requests. Gems will besides retrieve nan instructions you provide, truthful you tin entree them to thief prevention clip connected repetitive prompts aliases tackle analyzable tasks. Educators tin create Gems for thief pinch a assortment of topics, for illustration creating schoolroom instruction plans aliases differentiated activities for students pinch accommodations, aliases crafting emails to parents.
  
• Foster your students’ passion for AI and STEM. Share five tips pinch your students to responsibly level up their AI game. And cheque retired nan CS First Toolkit for everything you request to kickstart machine subject acquisition successful nosy and engaging ways for students successful grades 4-8.
  
• Get tips connected utilizing our astir celebrated acquisition tools. With our Back-to-School Guide, make nan astir of Google devices to amended engagement, collaboration and schoolroom management. This guideline gives you tips connected utilizing Google Workspace for Education, Chromebooks, Gemini and admin settings crossed apps, on pinch ways to support guardians involved.
  
• Kick disconnected nan schoolhouse twelvemonth pinch engaging Digital Skill Lessons. The Applied Digital Skills Back to School Collection helps students get started successful nan classroom, definitive themselves, negociate their well-being and enactment organized, each while learning foundational integer skills. Each instruction comes equipped pinch easy-to-use instruction plans truthful you tin jump correct in.

For parents and guardians

These caller controls and features let families to negociate their ain integer crushed rules and empower young learners to clasp AI safely.

• Reduce distractions during people pinch School time. This year, we introduced School clip connected Fitbit Ace LTE smartwatches. Over nan adjacent year, we’ll bring School clip to moreover much devices including prime Android phones, tablets and Samsung Galaxy Watches, enabling parents and guardians to limit their children’s instrumentality functionality during schoolhouse hours.
  
• Help your teens navigate Gemini confidently and responsibly. Gemini has further policies, safeguards and a teen-specific onboarding process to thief protect young group from inappropriate responses. You tin besides research resources together, for illustration videos from our AI literacy video bid explaining the 5 must-knows of generative AI and really to responsibly usage AI to uplevel their learning.

Finally, nary matter really you’re learning, school aliases supporting nan students successful your life, Chromebooks travel successful a assortment of capacity levels and value points, and they make awesome companions for a successful schoolhouse year. Chromebooks person Google AI built in, and nan caller Chromebook Plus has moreover much next-level features powered by generative AI. Plus, schools tin easy negociate Chromebooks pinch admin tools, and parents and guardians tin support an oculus connected younger children’s activity pinch Family Link — truthful Chromebooks are elemental and adjuvant to use, each schoolhouse twelvemonth long.

*Note that merchandise and characteristic readiness will germinate complete time, whitethorn not beryllium disposable successful each markets and whitethorn not beryllium disposable for users nether nan property of 18.