Google presented a series of new features for educators at Bett UK, edtech's annual conference in London. I was not present, but as an educator, I am always curious about the innovations that Google and other technological giants have in the store.
This year, as expected, many new Google innovations focused on integrating Gemini and other generative capabilities of ai in the existing characteristics of Google Classroom. This is intriguing because they are designed to help educators provide more personalized learning opportunities with less work, which is always a goal for me and many educators.
However, the recent updates that really highlight me are more than ai capacities, since there are also new characteristics aimed at improving accessibility and bringing parents to the fold of their children's education.
Here is a closer look at the new characteristics of Google Classroom for which I am most intrigued as a journalist and educator.
1. Google Classroom now allows educators to generate custom vocabulary lists with Gemini
One of the ways in which ai has the potential to impact education is when it comes to helping educators to customize offers and suggestions for students.
This update aims to do so by making Gemini ai help educators to create personalized words lists for students or groups of individual students. These include parts of speech examples and other relevant examples for defined levels and issues of degree. This is based on other capacities in the Gemini Classroom, such as videos made with the help of ai.
Gemini in the classroom is driven by Learnlm, the set of Google's models trained to align with science learning principles.
2. Parents now have more access to Google Aula
For obvious reasons, students' parents and guardians often want to participate in the education of their children. This new Google Classroom function offers educators the ability to share a class work page within Google's classroom so that parents can stay informed about the tasks for the class or classes of their children.
Parents will also have access to a weekly email summary of the student's work in class.
3. Access to Notebooklm Plus
Google Education customers who are 18 years or older will have access to More notebook notebookThe most advanced version of one of the most rumors of Google. With this access, educators can load sources that are using in class and make Notebooklm generate summaries, lessons plans, study guides, discussion questions and questionnaires, all with online appointments to guarantee precision.
The tool can also do some truly spectacular things, such as creating a personalized podcast with personalities generated by ai that summarizes a PDF and upload an educator.
4. Head and face control for chromebooks
Updates related to Google ai will probably receive the most attention, but this new update of Chromebook's abilities could be the most impressive and could be a great victory for accessibility.
This update allows users to control their cursor by moving their heads and making several facial gestures. Use ai technology through a series of automatic learning models trained to recognize a 3D mesh of 478 facial points, allowing real -free control in real time.
If this new incredible feature works without problems, this can be a great benefit for people who cannot write or navigate a mouse with their hands. The characteristic is implemented with the Chromeos M132 update.
