Summer AI Learning Goals: NotebookLM

What's NotebookLM?

NotebookLM has quickly become a trusted tool for teachers, library media specialists, and administrators thanks to its flexibility and user-friendly design. Whether you’re crafting lessons, supporting student research, or organizing resources, NotebookLM helps simplify the process.

You can easily add your own materials—like links, PDFs, Google Drive files, and audio—or use the Discover button to explore topics across your resources.

NotebookLM is like your personal research assistant: it helps you synthesize ideas, reorganize information, and enhance your work. You can create tailored study guides, differentiate resources to meet diverse student needs, and even produce audio summaries in a podcast format to engage different learning styles.

Just like all of the tools in your Google suite, collaboration is easy too. Share your notebooks with colleagues to co-plan and develop resources. And because you choose the resources, you always know exactly where the information comes from—adding transparency and reliability to your work. NotebookLM is a part of the Google Workspace for Education and you can access it with your school Google account here: notebooklm.google.com.

Ideas for Using NotebookLM

NotebookLM works efficiently to help you rethink how you can utilize your resources to meet the needs of all of your learners. There are so many ways to co-create with NotebookLM. Here are few that may inspire you as you dive in to explore this summer:

1. Create customized study guides or vocabulary lists tailored to the needs of English learners or students with learning differences

2.  Turn written materials into audio summaries or podcasts, supporting auditory learners

3. Generate discussion prompts that activate prior knowledge and encourage participation from all students

4. Break down challenging texts into manageable sections, provide key takeaways, and scaffold content for students who need extra support

5. Generate formative multiple ideas for formative assessments

Summer AI Learning Goals 2025

Using AI to Design Inclusive Learning Experiences: Summer Series

Happy Summer everyone! It's time to rest, relax and recharge! Learning new skills at your own pace over the summer is a great way to stay engaged and feel empowered.

Where are you in your AI learning journey? Are you an active user who can't live without it or are you still trying to figure out how you will use it? There are many powerful tools to support your instructional design and yet there never seems to be enough time to sort through it all.

Over the next five weeks, we will delve into a series of short learning activities designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills needed to effectively partner with AI tools to help design engaging learning experiences that address the needs of a wide variety of learners.

Join us each week to check out a different AI tool or platform and discover how these tools can be utilized to design engaging activities that are accessible for your students.

Each post will include:

• A brief overview of the tool/platform to highlight features and use cases

• Resources, tutorials and prompts to get you started

• A summer learning checklist to pace your own learning

• Ideas for back-to-school applications

First up: We'll explore how Notebook LM will become your next best AI friend:)

Exploring NotebookLM