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Title: Gemini's new Guided Learning mode can quiz students and create
interactive study aids

Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2025 18:17:46 +0000
Link: https://www.engadget.com/ai/geminis-new-guide...

Google is updating Gemini to make it a better education tool with a new
feature called Guided Learning. Like similar learning-focused updates to
ChatGPT and Claude, Guided Learning tries to promote understanding by
breaking down problems into step-by-step instructions, follow-up questions
and interactive examples, rather than simply providing an answer.

Guided Learning will be available as toggle in the prompt box of Gemini as
the feature rolls out. When it's toggled on, Gemini will treat questions as
more of a conversation, testing your knowledge, explaining concepts and even
generating visual aids, Google says. The feature is powered by Google's
LearnLM, a collection of models "fine-tuned for learning and grounded in
educational research."

Google

On top of Guided Learning, Google is also offering a free year of its AI Pro
plan for college students in the US, Japan, Indonesia, Korea and Brazil.
Google technically announced this promotion back in April for its Google One
AI Premium plan, but given the pace of AI and the never-ending complexity of
Google's branding, Google One AI Premium is now called Google AI Pro. The
subscription unlocks access to Gemini across Google Workspace apps, increases
the amount of files you can upload to NotebookLM and Gemini 2.5 Pro and
includes 2TB of storage. The subscription normally costs $200 per year, so
the savings are meaningful, even for just the storage.

Google has made deep inroads into education with Chromebooks and Google
Workspace, so it makes sense that it would try and leverage that good will to
create multiple generations of AI-dependent users. Besides the new feature
and promotion, the company says it's also investing "$1 billion in funding
over three years for American education" to cover things like research, cloud
computing resources and AI literacy courses. The goal here is clear: Google's
funding will help non-profit universities trying to adapt to student bodies
already deeply invested in AI, and it could also act as marketing for anyone
who isn't already bought in.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at
https://www.engadget.com/ai/geminis-new-guide...
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