At the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) 2025 conference, Google today announced the latest Gemini, Workspace, and Chromebook features for education.
“Gemini for Education” is a version of the Gemini app “built for the unique needs of the educational community.” Available to Workspace for Education users, it’s powered by Gemini 2.5 Pro with “significantly higher limits than what consumers get at no cost, plus enterprise-grade data protection and an admin-managed experience.”
Gemini is also getting the ability to respond with interactive diagrams and other visuals to “help learners understand complex concepts more easily.”
Meanwhile, educators have been creating Gems “grounded on course assignments and readings to engage students” to build Interactive Simulations. In the “coming months,” Gems will be shareable.
Google also says NotebookLM has “become one of [its] fastest-growing apps in education,” with Video Overviews now rolling out to “turn your sources into engaging educational videos.”
On the Google Workspace front, Gemini in Classroom is coming to all editions free of charge with 30 features like:
- Teacher-led notebooks in Classroom: “Educators can select resources from their class and instantly create an interactive study guide and podcast-style Audio Overviews for students, grounded in the materials educators upload.”
- Teacher-led Gems in Classroom: “Educators can create Gems, which are custom versions of Gemini, for students to interact with. After educators select Classroom resources to inform the Gem, they can quickly create AI experts to help students who need extra support or want to go deeper in their learning.”
Educators with a paid Google Workspace with Gemini add-on are getting access to Veo 3 in Google Vids, while Gemini in Google Forms can be used to create assessments and surveys: “It can even generate a form based on a Doc, Slide deck or PDF from Drive and use Gemini to summarize form responses.”
On the ChromeOS front, Google is adding a “Class tools” teaching mode for managed Chromebooks. Teachers can “share content to and from students’ screens.” Additionally:
- “…teachers can connect directly with students via Google Classroom (or a code) to share a workbook of resources like videos, articles, slides and quizzes.”
- “… lets teachers broadcast instructions to students’ screens with captions so they can read along at their own pace and even change the language of the broadcast.”
Google is making document cameras — that capture paper worksheets, especially math problems, and project to a big screen — compatible with ChromeOS through a universal document camera app. Camera Studio is coming soon.
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