Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Welcome to the podcast. I'm your host, Jaden Schaefer.
Chapter 2: What new feature is Google offering for SAT prep?
Today on the show, we are talking about a new feature that Google has been rolling out. They're officially going to be offering free SAT practice exams. This is going to be powered by Gemini. But I think this is moving into AI and education, and we're going to see this in a lot of other industries, a lot of other testing.
Chapter 3: How is AI transforming education and skill acquisition?
And this is something that Gemini and Google have really signaled in a big way that they want to get into. So we're going to talk about the future of AI and education and a lot more as we get into all of this.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of AI on traditional tutoring methods?
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And you can see which one you like better, as far as answering different types of questions. So If you want to go check that out, it's AIbox.ai. I'll leave a link in the show notes.
Chapter 5: How does Gemini personalize SAT practice exams for students?
Let's talk about what Google is doing with the SATs. So Google is helping out with SATs now. They announced that they're turning their education-focused AI tools towards kind of standardized testing. This is the next area that they're going to focus on. SAT is the first practice test that's going to be powered by Gemini, but we'll see more in the futures.
Students can essentially, you just go and ask Gemini. You can say something like, you know, I want to take a practice SAT test. And the AI is going to generate a full practice exam at no cost. Now, if I remember when I was studying for the ACT and other college exams, I remember how much pain it was to go and like, I would literally go to the library. I had
a textbook that had a bunch of practice exams in the back of it.
Chapter 6: What role do partnerships play in Google's education strategy?
I would take them. I would time myself. I would go flip to the back and have to grade myself. There was a whole process to it. And I think there was like this, you know, the, if I'm remembering correctly, but like my practice, ACT practice book that I purchased, um,
before I went to college was it had like, you know, it was like, we have three practice exams in the back of the in the back of this book, right? Because the whole book is teaching you how to take the test and everything you need to know for the test. And they had three practice tests you could take.
But once you took those three, like you basically would have to go and find a new book or a new source to buy new if you wanted to do more than three practices, which I never actually ended up doing, but I probably should have, as I believe that would have helped me out.
Chapter 7: How might AI influence students' learning and problem-solving skills?
In any case, it is incredible that today we're at a place where when you're taking SAT or any of these other tests, you're going to be able to just automatically generate this, get a new one every single time. And this is going to be a huge help for that test, the SAT, but I think for a lot of other things in education. And of course, all of this is completely free.
I think my book was back in the day, probably like 70 bucks or something like that, because they like to gouge you on these ACT, SAT practice exam books. What's interesting, though, is that after you take this whole test with Gemini, they generate it. Gemini can actually go and review the results and they can call out different strengths. They can flag different weak spots.
Chapter 8: What challenges do human tutors face in an AI-driven education landscape?
You know, back in the day when I was doing this, I would, you know, go and be like, oh, like I missed these different things. And you'd try to figure out where you wanted to study next. It can make a full study plan. It can explain, you know, the questions that you missed. It will explain, you know, a thorough, detailed explanation and explain why you missed it.
And what's cool, too, is it's not just like, oh, you got this wrong. Go study XYZ section. It's like you got this wrong, but you got it wrong in this number. So you probably were going down this line of reasoning to get there. And this is what it actually should have been. That is like so incredibly helpful and personalized. So that's actually quite amazing.
In order to make everything accurate and realistic, Google said that they're partnering with a bunch of different education companies, the Princeton Review, which I believe is, I think I had the ACT Princeton Review book back in the day. And those are all essentially going to make sure that all of the questions really closely resemble what students are actually going to see on test day.
I think right now this is kind of being framed as a potential. I mean, this is definitely a game changer for a lot of students who can't afford private SAT tutoring. But beyond that, I think, you know, by offering this for free, This is, you know, personalized practice. So it's beyond just, you know, free practices, but they're also personalized.
I think Google's trying to really help with education, level the playing field. But I think at the same time, it's also raising a really big question about how much influence AI should have over how students learn and how you prepare for some of these really high stakes exams. Now, personally, I think this is phenomenal in 101 different ways. So I'm actually not concerned at all about it.
It's interesting to me that Google is partnering with someone like the Princeton Review, I think the Princeton Review can see that this is a major, I mean, competition to their entire business model, where they are, they were the ones that have been selling these textbooks for all these years. And so and you know, they come with a new one every year with new practice tests in it and stuff.
And so it's going to be interesting to see how that disrupts their business model. But at the same time, I think it's inevitable, the Princeton Review knows that they don't work with Google, Google work with someone else, or just go hire people that can kind of figure this stuff out, hire former employees that can help them do this.
So I think basically they have no other option other than working with Google and trying to take the paycheck there from Google directly, because they know that the whole business model of selling these books is, I think, basically dead in the future. I think as far as AI in education, some people think it's controversial. I think it's an amazing thing.
A lot of teachers might be worrying that students could become, you know, overly dependent on Gemini or ChatGPT and outsource too much of their thinking to it. Some people have argued that if AI does all the heavy lifting, students are going to miss out on building some core problem solving and critical thinking skills.
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