16 Updates to Make Google BETTer

This week Google is in London at BETT, the world’s biggest educational technology exhibition. At the event, companies from all around the world show off their latest and greatest innovations for educational technology.

Google is using this opportunity to showcase new updates for Google Workspace for Education. These updates include new features for Google Classroom, Docs, Accessibility, Chromebooks, AI, and more!

Although I have never been to BETT yet (definitely a goal for the future!) I wanted to share these new updates with you. See below for my rundown of my favorite new updates that Google is announcing. For each item I give the gist of what is new as well as how these updates can make teaching and learning BETTer.

Google Duet AI for Schools

Artificial intelligence tools and resources for schools have been exploding over the last year. It seems like every day there is a new AI tool or feature.

Google has been very active in the AI space as well with their development of Google Bard, NotebookLM, and much more.

Recently Google has launched Duet AI for Google Workspace, one of their most powerful and ambitious artificial intelligence projects.

If you haven't heard of Duet AI, it is a suite of AI tools from Google that integrate directly with the Google Workspace products such as Docs, Slides, Sheets, Gmail, Meet, and more.

Recently I was fortunate to be able to interview Vivek Chachcha who is a Product Manager for Google Workspace for Education and who works directly with Duet AI for education. We chatted all about this new tool including current features, new options coming soon, how educators are using it, and how your school can try it out.

See below for the 25 minute recording of our conversation, as well as other information and resources related to Duet AI.