New Google Classroom AI Features & NotebookLM Opens to Students Under 18

Written By Tom Daccord

AT ISTE 2025 Google announced a significant expansion of its AI offerings for education, integrating Gemini 2.5 Pro directly into Google Classroom and Workspace for Education at no additional cost. Gemini will power more than 30 new features that will assist teachers with lesson planning, quiz creation, differentiated instruction, AI-generated study guides (text, audio, or video), and real-time analytics. Teachers can now also build custom “Gems”—AI agents tailored to their specific classroom needs.

NotebookLM, Google’s research assistant, will be accessible to students under 18 for the first time, enabling them to generate summaries, Q&A, and even podcast-style overviews using teacher-provided materials only. In all, the updates aim to personalize learning, save teachers time, and support equitable, scalable use of AI in classrooms worldwide.

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Teachers are curious about ChatGPT and AI, but don't know what tools they should use and where to find them. In this website I introduce and review AI tools for education and offer strategies for incorporating them. I am an international expert in pedagogical innovation with technology and an award-winning educator with over 30 years experience. I taught high school in Canada, France, Switzerland, and the U.S. and have presented on education technology topics to over 10,000 educators around the world. Multilingual, I present in English, Spanish, and French

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