Google Gemini Champion Use Cases: Planning Lessons
Overview:
Pilot participants proved Gemini to be a valuable asset for teachers, helping them create engaging and effective learning experiences while saving valuable time and effort. It’s ability to spark creativity, generate varied content, and streamline resource creation make it a valuable partner in lesson planning.
Here are some examples:
Sparking Inspiration & Generating Ideas:
Overcoming Creative Blocks: Providing fresh and innovative ideas for lessons, workshops, and activities, even suggesting unique concepts that might not have occurred otherwise. Teachers were using it to brainstorm engaging topics like children’s rights with a dramatic twist and creating “choose your own adventure” style stories.
Tailoring to Specific Needs: A supply teacher quickly generating “get to know you/icebreaker” activities for a new, challenging class with was tweaked during break time to suit the audience. Adapting existing ideas to suit specific student interests, such as incorporating drama and role-playing.
Creating Engaging Learning Experiences:
Developing Engaging Content: Helping create captivating content like image generation and story starters, offering a good starting point for creative writing and imaginative play.
Crafting Curricular Materials: Generating questions for class with answer schemes, creating multiple choice tests, developing curricular progressions, and producing reading comprehension questions with answers.
Building Assessments: Quickly generating exams, multiple choice questionnaires, and practice questions tailored to specific levels (e.g., National 4 applications of maths). Generating answer keys that explain both correct and incorrect options.
Saving Valuable Time & Effort
Streamlining Resource Creation: Quickly creating presentations, lesson plans, policy documents (e.g., dyslexia policy), letters to parents, and support guides for staff.
Simplifying Complex Tasks: Summarising reading material, researching education policy, and clarifying complex technical points or product comparisons.
Generating Materials at Short Notice: Quickly creating exams or practice questions when teachers are faced with tight deadlines.
Addressing Challenges & Limitations:
Double-Check for Accuracy: While Gemini is a powerful tool, it is essential to double-check its output for accuracy, especially with questions and answers.
Navigating Limitations: Be aware of potential limitations, such as difficulties with graph generation and accessing paid features.
Quotes from Gemini Champions:
“During the pilot I have utilised Google Gemini in many constructive ways. Some of these were time savers, but I was also able to use the tool to complete tasks of increased complexity”
“I directly used Gemini to generate ideas that wouldn’t have come to me otherwise, and these had a direct impact on a workshop I developed, which myself and a colleague ran (as a pilot) with a P5 class. Feedback on the workshop was excellent, and it will be repeated”
