Google Summit - Workshop 1

 Reading Helper for Every Student

Chris Betcher

Building Literacy with Google Read Along inside Google Classroom
Read to or Read with
Article: suggests Parents don't enjoy reading to children - The Guardian.com

Read-along was originally developed for Android phones with children's books. AI listened to the child read and would help, then moved to a web application

Gamified - level up success jingle - Moved into Google Classroom and therefore can assign books and give feedback, and teachers get analytics

Levelled reading and Decodables - Higgety adding more
Common words struggling with, give a summary of accuracy: correct, got with help, didn't try, and tried but did not get it right. Gives CWPM - correct words per minute
You can create groups

Can use Gemini to create books; they can include words students struggle with, but there are no pictures. Only create text which you can download and copy to other places

Due to copyright restrictions, it is not advisable to add text such as School Journals, but it is available only to your class.

Gemini Gem - storybook gives a storyline and name, and will create with images. Pirates in the backyard. You can also listen to the story in Gemini. These are not downloadable or movable.



For more, check out Chris's YouTube playlist, click on the image.

Other Workshops: 

Keynote Speaker - Eric Curts: Levelling up Every Learner

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)