Ed Tech in Our Classrooms

My students say I am obsessed with this new tool, NotebookLM , but I believe it is the harbinger of a game-changing movement in education. This AI from Gemini and Google can take large chunks of text (we tried the whole of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night in class) and will generate a 9-minute podcast. The two computer-generated podcasters' voices are clear and engaging, and you even hear them searching for just the right word as they work through a summarization of the text. I have tried it with a few other long documents. Here is an example from a Charter Workgroup Summary by a local City Council. https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/1a5f0635-987e-480a-8eb1-1ba626dc5028/audio

 Is it possible for a student to write an AI Prompt and generate a selfie? Yes, it is. The prompts needed a bit of work but the AI managed to capture some key elements (if you set aside facial hair and gender). 

 This year I asked ALL my students to add their faces to the group image. Well done, everyone.