Link:
http://notebooklm.google
📝 Description: “Your personalized research assistant.” Upload your sources (PDF, websites, YouTube videos, Google Docs, Google Slides, etc). NotebookLM summarizes them and mades interesting connections between all topics. It’ll create study guides, FAQs, executive summaries, and more.
FYI: We wrote about NotebookLM and how it can be used in the classroom here!
🧑🏫 How to use it in education: Create engaging resources related to whatever students are learning. Use sources like PDFs, textbook chapters, handouts, etc. Then create resources (as documents or audio summaries) and make them available to students in your learning management system (Google Classroom, Canvas, Schoology, etc.).
📜 Terms of use: Users must be 18+ years old (but teachers can create resources with NotebookLM and make them available to students in other platforms).
🔊 The audio summary: This is probably the most mind-blowing part of NotebookLM. Click the audio summary button in the notebook guide. It’ll generate an audio file of two AI hosts discussing your topic. They banter back and forth, make analogies an comparisons, and break down complex topics. The natural language they use is pretty mind-blowing. You can download these audio files and make them available to students through Google Drive or your learning management system.
📄 “Slip the hosts a note”: Use the “customize” button when creating an audio summary. This lets you give the AI guidance when creating the AI host discussion. Ask for things like “less technical,” “for ___ audience” … you can even give it your name and tell it to reference you!
⚠️ Caution: Double-check all of the resources that NotebookLM creates. I’ve found that it is very accurate with what it creates, but especially in cases where it doesn’t have much source information to work with, it could make errors (called “hallucinations”).
