The Ultimate Teacher's Guide to Google Gemini - 2025 Masterclass

What if you could get back five hours this week?   What if you could instantly create three different   versions of any lesson for your diverse learners?   And what if you had a personal teaching assistant   who was ready to help you 24/7? It might sound  too good to be true. But today, I'm going to   show you the tool that makes all this possible,  and it isn't fantasy. It's Google's AI, Gemini. Hey everyone, welcome back to Teachers Tech.   I'm Jamie, and this video is the ultimate   master class on the Gemini app itself. We're  going to cover everything from planning and   assessment to creating custom images, videos,  and even interactive apps for your class. Now,   Gemini is incredibly powerful on its own, but it  also integrates seamlessly into tools you already   use. I have entire videos dedicated to how it  works inside Google Classroom and how to use it   with your own documents in Notebook LM. The links  for those are down below in the description. But   today, we're doing the ultimate deep dive into the  standalone Gemini app. I'll be sharing powerful   ideas on how you can use Gemini as a teacher and  just as importantly how your students can use it   to become more confident independent learners. And  let's address the most critical question first,   security. The Gemini for Education course services  comes with an enterprisegrade data protection.    This means your data isn't reviewed and it's  not used to train any AI models. You can be   confident that you're working in a secure private  environment designed specifically for schools.    The absolute best way to get exactly what you  want from Gemini is to use the parts framework.

The simple acronym will turn your simple  questions into powerful, precise commands.    Let's really break this down. P is for persona.   You need to tell Gemini who to be. Tell it,   act as a veteran instructional coach or you're  award-winning curriculum designer for fifth grade   science. A is for act. This is your verb. Use  strong, clear action words like create, design,   summarize, differentiate, or generate. R  is recipient. Who is this for? Specifying   your audience is key to getting the right tone  and complexity. T is for theme. This is your   topic. The more specific you are, the better the  results will be. S is for structure. How do you   want this information to be delivered? Ask for  it in a bulleted list, a table, a lesson plan,   a rubric, or even a script for a video.   Now, if you've never used Gemini before,   you can go to gemini. google. com. Or if you go over  to the app launcher into the Google apps here,   I have Gemini placed here. You can drag these  around. So if you're using it lots, you can go   ahead and click on it and it's going to bring you  into Gemini. If you've never used Gemini before,   I want to give you a quick walk around. This  is where you're going to enter your prompts   where you can type them in. If you don't want  to type them in, you can use the microphone.    Remember just to use normal natural language.   If you need to add files to your prompt, this   is where you're going to add it to. You can upload  from your computer, add from Google Drive, or even   import code. We have a number of different tools  inside Gemini. Throughout this tutorial, I'm going   to give different examples of these, how you can  use them in your class. If we go over to the left,   you'll see the expand menu. This is where you're  going to see all the other old prompts that you've   created. You can go back to them at any time. If  you have an important prompt that you would like,   you can pin it and it will get placed at the  top. We do have some settings and helps here.    You notice I'm under dark theme. You can switch  to light theme as well and you can take a look   at the different items in the settings. Now,  an important thing to know is the difference

right here between the different models. We have  flash and pro. Let me explain a little bit about   these. Think of Gemini Pro as your specialist.   Google's best model for tasks that require complex   reasoning. And it's fine-tuned for learning, and  it's what you'll want to use for deep analysis,   like helping you assess a student's essay against  rubric, or explaining a really complex scientific   topic. Now, think of Gemini Flash as your  everyday all-around assistant. It's perfect   when you need a quick and high-quality first draft  of a lesson, a quiz, or other classroom materials.    So my simple rule of thumb for this is for the  majority of your daily creative and planning task,   start with Flash. When your tasks require  deep analysis, complex problem solving,   or the most nuanced understanding, switch to Pro.   All right, let's put this powerful framework into

practice. Picture this. It's Sunday night and you  have to plan a brand new unit. Instead of staring   at a blank document, let's give Gemini a detailed  prompt. Act as a curriculum designer for a 10th   grade world history class. That's the persona. You  don't have to add that to the prompt. It's just   to help me explain the breakdown of it. Design  a 5e lesson plan. That's the act structure for   a 55minute period on the Silk Road. Recipient  theme. The lesson should be inquiry based and   include an engaging hook, student led exploration  activities, and a short writing prompt for an exit   ticket. The structure. I'm going to be using  the flash model on this one, but you can go   ahead and try both to see what the difference in  the output is. Let's go ahead and submit this.    In a matter of a few seconds, I have my lesson  plan. I'm just going to scroll down. You can see   that we have it on 10th grade, 55 minutes, Silk  Road, the different things that I asked for. It   has a hook, a mystery artifact, and if I keep  going down at the end, it gives you an idea of   all the things that were created. We have an exit  ticket that I asked for it to create. Now, I want   to point out you can edit this quickly. So anytime  I could go to here, I could ask Gemini once I have   it highlighted or I could just type something else  in. We have different ways we can change the text   right up here. Now some other things I want to  point out over here. We can change the length   of this. So this just would go through Gemini. I  can drag it shorter or longer and it will just go   through and adjust it to based what I would like.   We can also change the tone by dragging this. You   can see from very casual to very formal and this  suggests edits. So, if I go ahead and click this   and I'll give it a second, it's going to go  through and suggest edits that I could make   changes to. So, here is the first suggestion  here. Well, because I've already changed this   to 9th grade, it's saying this is 10th grade,  but as I go through the objective strong, but   could be more concise. So, I can go through and  apply these and it'll make a changes to it. So,   it really helps you understand all the parts of  the assignment. Now, I want to point out once you   get it all done the way you want to, you can click  share and export. I can click to export to Docs or   copy the contents here and it will go straight to  a Google Docs. Now, this you'll notice you get a   few more options and depending on what version I  am using a pro education account, so I'll probably   have a few more things than if you're using just  the free one. You can see how I can go ahead and   create a web page, infographic, quiz, or an  audio re overview just like in notebook LM.    Let's examine other content we can create with  Gemini. Let's say a sixth grade history teacher   is creating a presentation and needs a specific  engaging image for a slide about daily life in   ancient Egypt. So, this is the prompt I'm going  to give it. Act as a children's book illustrate   and historian. Create an illustration for a sixth  grade history class presentation about a daily   life in ancient Egypt. The style should be a clean  and detailed educational cartoon. The image needs   to show people farming along the fertile banks  of the Nile River. In the background, the pyramid   should be visible under a warm setting sun. The  overall mood should be peaceful and productive.    Now, I'm going to make a quick change to from  tools here. I'm going to turn it to images.    I'm going to send this off and you're going to see  Gemini will create this for me. In a few moments,   I have my picture. So, here's a clean,  detailed education cartoon illustration. So,   all the things that I asked for right inside  the image, the sunset, the pyramids, the river,   this will work great. As I hover over it, notice  I can download the full size. Then I can go put   it into any presentation or document copyright  free. Now, I want to just mention really quickly,   if you need help with your prompts, go ahead and  ask Gemini. I did use the parts framework for this   image, but if you're giving Gemini an idea, have  a conversation with it. Ask, "What am I missing   in this prompt that could get more details? Ask it  to write the prompt for you. " That's a great way.    I use that all the time with getting my prompts  better and better. Also, now I want to show you   how you can use Gemini to create a video. So maybe  you want a hook at the beginning of a unit and you   want a short video that you can show. You can do  that with Gemini as well. So I'm going to switch   to uh this time videos with VO and you might have  a different version maybe V2. I do have a pro   version so I am using uh VO3 but you can go ahead  and try and see what you get. VO3 does put audio   in it. So here is going to be my description. I  could start with a photo as well. So, if you had   a photo, you can turn that photo into a video.   I'll do more videos about using Gemini in videos   soon. But here is my detailed prompt. Generate  a highquality video clip uh to introduce to the   sixth grade unit of ancient Rome. The clip should  be a dynamic and exciting featuring epic sweeping   shots of the coliseum at sunset, a visual of water  flowing through a Roman aqueduct, and a closeup of   Roman legionaries helmet. The soundtrack should be  dramatic orchestral music to build anticipation of   the new unit. I'm going to go ahead and submit  this. And this does take a couple minutes to   uh to render. Now, that only took about a  minute to get done. And if I hover over,   you can see it's 8 seconds long. It's going to  start with the shot of the coliseum. Uh I noticed   right away they kind to make it more look more  epic. It's in this widescreen format. Let's hit   play. Colosseum, the aqueduct, the helmet, and  that's the last shot. I guess I can hit pause,   but the music's in there as well. So, I can make  a number of these clips, download them right here,   put them in a video editor, piece them all  together that way. Uh, Google also has another   app called Flow where you can create longer  videos, you can extend clips. I'm going to have a   different video about that one because it's really  cool to uh do for storytelling. But this is a   great way to introduce a new unit. Now, let's talk  about creating assessments and meeting the needs

of all our learners. Now, with this prompt, look  at how we design it. You're an assessment designer   creating a project for 7th grade life science  class. That's the persona. Design a case-based   assessment, the ACT structure, where students must  apply their knowledge of ecosystems. the recipient   theme. Provide a real world scenario about a  local wetland. Include three analysis questions   and create a rubric with criteria, evidence,  accuracy, and critical thinking. For this prompt,   I did use the pro model. Let me know down in  the comments below what you're using pro or   flash. What works better for you? What have  you noticed some of the difference are? Now,   with this, I didn't tell them what my town was,  but it did pick up my location. And that's the   town right here I live close to. and they put  that into it. So they actually got information   from there. So on the right here, I can go  through and edit and do the same things that   I showed you before. But if you take a look at  this from the scenarios to uh analysis questions   to the rubric was created inside of this. I  could continue with my conversation if with   Gemini over here if I want to make any changes to  this. Uh like I showed you before, we can go and   share export this out to docs and depending  on your uh depending on what model you have,   what options you have. So this is a different way  we can use Gemini for assessment. Again, thinking   about the parts and what's specific for you and  what you need. Using Gemini as a partner to help   assess finished papers is one of the most powerful  applications for teachers. It can save time and   help you provide consistent highquality feedback.   The key is to give Gemini a very specific role   and clear structure to follow. You wanted to act  as an assistant that prepares the assessment for   your final review, not one that makes the final  judgment for you. Here's a highly effective prompt   for this task. First of all, let's start with  the scenario. A high school teacher, English   teacher is grading a final essay. They want help  identifying evidence from the student's work that   aligns with the rubric and drafting constructive  feedback. Before I show you the prompt,   I just want to show you the file I'm going to be  attaching. I did put it all together in one file,   but I could have separate files for this as well.   I have the document one. Here is the assignment   instructions here. Then I have a rubric that's  included in here. And then at the very end, you'll   see that there's the students final submitted  essay. So, this is what it'll be assessing. Now,   I could upload more documents. I'm just doing this  as a demo. Now, there here's the prompt. Act act   as my experienced high school English teaching  assistant. I'm assessing a student's final paper   and need your help to streamline the process. I've  attached the document. So, this is the what I just   showed you. The original assignment instructions,  the rubric, the student's final submitted essay.    Please analyze the student's essay and provide a  structured summary for me to use for each category   on the rubric. Thesis statement analysis, use  of evidence, conclusion. First, pull one or   two direct quotes or examples from the student's  paper that demonstrates the performance in the   specific category. Second, draft a constructive  feedback comment for that category. The comment   should start with a positive obser observation and  then offer one specific actionable suggestion for   improvement. Do not assign a score or a grade.   The role is to provide the evidence and draft   the feedback for my review. So, all that detail,  I think, will get me to what I want. I'm going to   take this uh document and actually just drop it  right in here. I could go and attach it as well,   but I'm going to send this off and we'll see what  we get from its assessment with the feedback.    Remember, you can adjust these prompts to get more  of what you want from Gemini. I'm just trying to   show you the power with these specific prompts  of what you can get done. Let's take a look at   these results here. I like So, right away, it  did what I asked. It's pulling the information   from it. Here's the students work. It starts with  a constructive feedback here, but it's also giving   uh ways of improvement here. So, consider making  your thesis even more specific. As we go through,   we can see it's pulling the quotes from the  uh students work. Uh and again, it's asking   a question here to get that thinking into it. So,  this can really help you with feedback. Remember,   it's not giving the uh overall assessment.   The this is giving you help to go through   these papers and give this pinpointed feedback  in a much quicker way. Now, I'm going to go on   later on and show you how students can use the  same method before they even hand in anything to   get the uh self feedback and where they can make  corrections before they even give it to a teacher.

Now, for all you STEM teachers out there, or  really any teacher who wants to create an engaging   interactive experience, you don't need to know how  to code to do this. You can ask Gemini to build a   simple interactive app to demonstrate a concept.   Let's try this prompt out for an example. Act as   an expert in creating education simulations.   Create a simple interactive app that shows   the relationship between a predator, like a fox,  and its prey, like a rabbit, for a middle school   science class. The app should be should visually  show how the two populations rise and fall over   time. It must include simple sliders or buttons  and that let students adjust the starting number   of rabbits and the starting number of foxes.   Finally, provide a brief step-by-step explanation   of the rules the simulation follows so I can  explain the logic to my students. Now, I know that   seems like a lot of information there, but again,  help get help from Gemini if you're trying to get   information of what to write into a prompt,  but let's send this off and see what we get. Let's see what Gemini created for us from that  one prompt. We have the rules right here. I'm   going to click open. Here are the rules that were  created, the information for the students. I can   go back to the simulator under preview. Right  now, you can check uh take a look at the code   that was created by Gemini to create it. Create  this simulator here. Let's go ahead and give it   a test here. I can increase or decrease the foxes.   So, if I increase the foxes, probably should make   the rabbits disappear pretty quickly. I can hit  start and red or the foxes. It looks like they're   eating up those blues pretty quickly. That was a  quick simulation. If I increase the uh let's hit   reset here. Increase. do it. Do it this way. And  we should see a difference here. It's definitely   a lot slower. Everything's being graphed here.   But it's a fun way to take a concept and turn it   into an interactive game to demonstrate this to  students. We can also teach our students how to

use Gemini for their own personal tutor, fostering  independence and confidence. Here's an example.    It's a prompt you could show students. Act as  a friendly and encouraging biology teacher. So,   there's the persona. I need to understand DNA  replication theme. Explain it to me simply act and   then show me a step by step how to outline the key  stages and the main enzymes involved. Now, Gemini   breaks this down in a simple easy way to consume  for the student. Now, applying some of these other   methods I showed you about creating images or  videos and as this advance students will really   be able to take in control of their own learning.   Remember before when I was demonstrating a prompt   to help teachers with assessment with feedback?   A student could do the same thing. So here's an   example. Let's say the teacher was giving this for  an assignment. Here's the assignment and they gave   the rubric. Now at the very bottom of bottom of  this, I put the students work. So this is would   be the students own work and they want to find out  how they're doing and how they could make changes   to this. Get some feedback before they hand it  in. So, here's going to be the prompt I'm going   to give it. Act as a helpful history teacher and  writing coach. I have attached two files. My draft   essays on the main causes of World War I, the  grading and rubric. My teacher provided an   assignment. Please carefully review my essay and  check my work against the category for the rubric   for each rubric category like thesis. And you can  see what I wrote there. One specific thing I did   well. One specific suggestion of how to improve  to better the rubric's criteria. Please give   me constructive feedback and ideas, but do not  rewrite the essay for me. Again, I'm going to take   this and drop it in, and I'm going to send this  and we're going to get some feedback from Gemini   for this student. For motivated learners, this is  so important that you show them. Let's take a look   at the results. So, my fake name was Sarah here.   What I did well, so it gives me the points what I   did well. I like what it did here, telling me how  to move from exemplary here, uh, where I should   revise my introduction into a more clear one-s  sentence thesis statement that takes a stand. Now,   that's not giving me any information on how to  do it. It's just giving me feedback of what areas   to look at. Now, that's why I made the prompt  specific about not to rewrite anything for me. So   it gives me ideas to consider about these things.   But for each part of the rubric, it's helping me   if the student look at it and then saying, "Okay,  how can I do this better with the suggestions? "   It's going to be up to the student to take those  suggestions and do that in their rewrite. Now that

we've covered some of the core applications, let's  look at three advanced features that really take   your desktop workflow to the next level. First up  is deep research. Think of this as your personal   research assistant. You ask a complex question and  Gemini will automatically search up to hundreds   of websites and create an insightful multi-page  report with citations. So let's try this prompt   and see the type of research we get back. First of  all, under the tools, we need to go under the deep   research here and I'm going to ask it to conduct  a deep search on alternative grading systems in   high school specifically upgrading and mastery  based grading. Highlight research on students   outcome engagement and instructor workload.   summarize your findings and a comprehensive   report I can share with my department. Let's  send this off. And this does take a little bit   of time as it does all this research. It is at  the first phase right now. The research websites,   it kind of shows the steps that we'll go through.   I'm going to click start research. Here's the   finished research here. I'm going to do a quick  export to Docs and I'll open that up. Here it   is in Google Docs here. As I go through, you  can see it's two of 32 pages. This is loaded   with information. Notice that we have things  that are cited in here. As I scroll through,   this is a lot of information. I'm going to go  down to the very end. Oh, you can start to see   that they even created charts in here, different  tables. And as I go through to the very end of   this, everything is cited. So, all everything  was cited through here. It shows where they   pulled the information from. So if you need TE's  research done, think about what you're prompting,   how you want it on an output. Think about those  things I've showed you in the parts framework. One   of Gemini's most powerful features is the use of  gems. And to access gems, if you expand the menu,   you're going to see them right here. You can  even create your own. Now, before we even get   to creating our own gems, Gemini comes with some  incredibly useful pre-made gems that are ready   to go right outside the box for our students.   One of the most powerful is the learning coach.    Think of it as a patient 24/7 tutor built right  into Gemini. It's specifically designed not to   just give answers, but break down complex topics,  provide analogies, and create practice problems to   help students truly understand a concept. It's the  perfect tool to show students how to get unstuck   when they're doing homework. Now, before I showed  you how to create certain prompts inside Gemini,   but Learning Coach will just make it easier  where they don't have to do all that prompting,   but let's go ahead and create our own to show you  how it's done. I'm going to click on explore gems.    And you'll see the pre-made ones here, but what  we want to do is create a new gem. Let's create   a gem that every K to2 teacher will want in their  toolkit. We'll call it Classroom Activity Creator.    Its job is to take a topic we're teaching and  instantly give us fun, engaging activities to   help students learn. Here's the instructions I'm  going to give it. So, I won't have to go through   each time and give instructions. This is going  to be pre-made in it. It's like creating little   apps that I have at easy access. So, in this case,  you're an experienced and creative K to8 teacher   who excels at gamifying lessons. That's the  persona. You per your purpose is to take any topic   I provide and generate three distinct low prep  and engaging classroom activities. The activities   should be suitable for elementary or middle school  students and take about 10 15 minutes to complete.    Always provide the activities in a numbered list  and include a quick partner talk activity, a   simple group name, and a short creative solo task.   So, now that we have this information in here,   I could upload more reference files if I needed  that as part of this CL classroom creativity,   but I don't have to. I'm going to go ahead and  click save. Let's go ahead and click the chat. You   can see on the left hand side I have the classroom  activity creator. Let's give this a simple prompt   this time. I'm teaching a lesson on the parts  of a plant to my fourth graders. Give me some   activities. And here's the output. We have one,  two, three. We have a partner talk group game.    We have solo task. And remember, this is going to  be based on the information that I put in the gem   that when I created it, this is going to save me  a lot of time. So, if you find yourself doing the   same thing over and over again, and you want to  make your prompt writing easier, create your gem,

then you don't have to give that detailed prompt  every time. Now, I've spent a lot of time today   showing you how to use Gemini on your computer,  but I want you to also know you have full access   to this on your Android or iOS device through  the Gemini app. You just have to install it. So,   everything I showed you today, you can do right  from the app there, but you can also do more. And   I just want to highlight a couple different  things. In the bottom right hand corner of   the app, you're going to see Gemini Live. So,  I'm just going to go press on this. And you're   going to hear a voice come up right away. Hello.   Hi there. What can I help you with? Hey, I'm just   showing people uh Gemini live. Did you want to  say hi to everybody? I'm just doing a video. Hi everyone. It's great to be here. I'm  excited to be a part of this video and   show you what I can do. Well, I just  want to do a quick demo just so people   that realize you're there. Can you help  help me learn a little Spanish today? Absolutely. I'd be happy to help  you learn some Spanish today. What   would you like to start with? We could  cover basic some uh basic greetings. Great. Let's start with the most common greeting.    Hola. That's hello in Spanish.   Can you try saying hola? Hola. Perfect. You nailed it. Now, I'm just going to  stop it there. I could continue on. It's going to   listen to me how my pronunciation is and it will  give me tips on how to prove. Now, that's just one   thing. I could have any conversation with it in  live time like that where I can interrupt. I can   change the voices and the settings if I want. So,  don't forget you can just have this very natural   conversation when you turn on Gemini Live. But  the next thing I want to show you is something   that people don't realize. Gemini Live can also  see. All right. So, this time I'm going to go back   to Gemini Live again and I'm going to turn on the  camera on the left. So, this is just my computer.    I wish I was walking around a classroom and I'd  ask more questions, but what do you see there? I see a cactus in a pot.   Did you have any questions   about it? Yeah. What type of cactus is that? That's a fairy castle cactus. They're  popular house plants. Did you have any   care questions about them? Uh, no.   What I'm thinking about is I want   to take this plant and put it in front  of my grade three class. Can you give   me some engaging lesson plans? Maybe  I could center around this cactus. That's a fun idea. You could start by asking your  students what they already know about cacti. Then   you could talk about how cacti are adapted to  live in dry places like deserts. Maybe even   compare the desert to where you live. All  right. Again, everything the conversation   is there. I can go back over to my desktop  and it's going to be all there as well. Now,   I just wanted to make sure you realize this was  here because when you're using this everything,   Gemini can hear you. It can see everything and  it just brings in a whole another perspective   of how to use it. So, there you have it.   From the foundational parts framework for   your desktop to generating ideas on the go with  your mobile app, you're now equipped to make   Gemini invaluable partner in your classroom.   This is about giving back your time, sparking   your creativity, and providing your students  with incredible new ways to learn. Remember,   AI is your co-pilot. Always review output and  infuse it with your own professional expertise,   and you can do so with confidence that you're  working in a secure, private environment. I   truly hope this ultimate guide was helpful for  you. I'll see you next time on Teachers Tech.