Google Summit 2025 - KeyNote Speaker

Level Up Every Learner with AI

Key Note Speaker - Eric Curts

Eric spoke about how it is essential to ensure that we are helping our students level up their learning, and they can do so with the use of AI.

Games where you can level up and the sound of achieving - draws people in, E.g. Super Mario, Pokémon, World of Warcraft

As teachers, we want to provide opportunities for students that they may not have otherwise.

When talking about Levelling Up; 

Eric is referring to not just supporting educators but also EMPOWERING STUDENTS using AI:

In the 80s, Bloom investigated the value of moving the bell curve

We want to move the bell curve to the right (2 sigma problem)
Move 2 percentiles if students had their own personal tutor (AI)

Looking at Summative Achievement

Low Curve (Blue) = Conventional Classroom (1:30)
Middle Curve = Mastery Learning (1:30)
Tall Curve (Red) = Having a Personal Tutor/AI (1:1)




Not only using AI to help us as educators, but also to help students directly.
If we don't empower students, they miss out.

Personalised Learning Power Ups

1. Google Gemini - Using Guided Learning: Gemini can explain the basic information and ask each student questions, bringing them into the discussion and encouraging them to think critically. Using Google Gemini, Teachers can create fun quizzes and games where students want to continue levelling up and provide the opportunity to double-check their knowledge.
2. NotebookLM - Students can add content to NotebookLM and then generate audio overviews, video overviews, mindmaps, quizzes, and flashcards. Methods that help students in the manner they prefer to process information.

Feedback Power Ups

1. Google Gemini GEMS - premade tools such as the Writing Editor - Students can use it to help write, but Gemini asks for information to encourage students to write for themselves.

2. Snorkl provides instant feedback - You can supply a question for students, and they record their voice and whiteboard work to explain their answer. The AI gives feedback on their answer and reasoning.

Creativity Power Ups

Here are a few of the different places you can use AI to be Creative:

• 
  AI Experiments
  
• Goolge Arts & Culture
• Google Labs
• Whisk
• Flow
• Art Remix
• Learning Light
• Music FX
• Musical Canvas
• Gemini Canvas - write code to make a spelling snake game or any type of game you can use to engage and reinforce learning

Accessiblilty

Gemini can have students speak, or they can choose to listen

Gemini Live - on phone - ask it to explain and take a photo of what needs explaining

Google Meet - translation as they speak in their language

Everway - Read Write (we have this) - setting choose voice works on the free version

AI is here to help us like Iron Man; we need to have a person in control

Think back to the teachers you have had. What impact did they have?
- Relationship/Connections, Encouraged and Inspired!

DEMO SLAM

There were many great demonstrations but the best 2 were:

Using Gemini Storybook to create a story with images. 

Eric Curts shared the Gemini AI in Google Classroom, sharing the links and then finding ones we might not know. Click on image to open

KarAIoke

Other Workshops: 

Reading Helper for Every Student - Chris Betcher

Don't Search It - Make it with Gemini - Steve Smith 

Hipster Google - Eric Curts

Special Guest Mr AI Chatterbot - Eric Curts

Thanks to :

Albany Senior High School
Deploy Learning, working with Google to run events
The 112 schools/organisations here
Google Staff 
Sponsor Everway (Texthelp)