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Step into November as we launch Science and Peace month across the Global GEG. In recognition of World Science Day for Peace and Development, discover how educators are using scientific inquiry, open verification, and ethical AI to combat misinformation and cultivate peaceful societies. Read our theme launch post for actionable classroom strategies, Google Workspace workflows, UNESCO frameworks, and a brand-new Gemini inquiry prompt!

Ask anyone about the teacher who changed their life, and they won’t describe a lesson plan - they’ll describe someone who simply had the time to notice them. As we close out October and celebrate our GEG theme of The Teaching Profession, we’re confronting a hard truth: real teacher presence requires real systemic support. Discover how readymade resources like Intel® Skills for Innovation Starter Packs can hand hours back to educators so you can focus on the moments that matter most.

Educator burnout is too often fueled by excessive paperwork, redundant meetings, and instructional isolation. In the latest Global GEG webinar, Italian curriculum innovators Antonello Magaletti, Mariel Reid, and Ilaria Chiusano join host Claudia Fisanotti to share practical blueprints for collaborative leadership and sustainable workflows. From leveraging Gemini Notebooks to personalize instruction and recover struggling learners to replacing marathon planning sessions with asynchronous Google Drive workflows, discover how connected educators reclaim time to invest in what matters most: human relationships.

Ready to build a more resilient, educator-driven professional culture? Read our complete event recap, explore step-by-step classroom strategies, and join the global conversation.

Teaching can often feel like an isolating profession, especially when educators are left to navigate shifting curricula and heavy administrative burdens on their own. In the latest Global GEG webinar, international educational leaders Mark Valentine Aikins from Ghana and Patrick Hickey from Ireland break down practical blueprints to cultivate resilient, educator-driven communities of practice. From building centralized lesson adaptation banks on Google Sites and locking master templates in Google Drive to running low-stakes six-minute "TeachMeets" and automating classroom action research, discover how connected educators use Google Workspace to elevate teacher agency and protect instructional wellness.

Ready to transform your school's professional learning culture? Read our complete event recap, access practical collaboration templates, and connect with peers around the world.

As we continue our October celebration of The Teaching Profession, discover how educators are leveraging instructional data, data-informed inquiry, and collaborative professional learning networks to steer curriculum design. Read on for practical strategies, UNESCO frameworks on professional autonomy, and our latest Gemini prompt!

Welcome back to the Global Connection Series! In this session, we explored how to thoughtfully integrate artificial intelligence into music education, prioritizing robust pedagogical frameworks and accessible, creative prompt engineering tools.

Native Markdown editing in Docs, point-in-time timeline editing in Vids, and expanded Google Voice carrier links!  Discover how the latest Google Workspace updates streamline documentation, video creation, and cross-platform automation in this week's Global GEG recap.

As we continue our October focus on The Teaching Profession, discover how educators are stepping into active leadership roles and shaping institutional policy. Read our latest post for actionable strategies on co-designing AI and pedagogical guidelines, UNESCO frameworks on teacher empowerment, and a new Gemini prompt to elevate educator voice!

Check out our October 2026 AI Educator Series release! We explored new, bite-sized learning modules featuring Gemini’s free tools!

Fresh off World Teachers' Day 2026, explore how experienced educators are bridging geographical divides to empower early-career colleagues through digital peer observation and mentorship. Read on for practical mentoring routines using Google Workspace for Education, global policy frameworks from UNESCO, and a new Gemini prompt to structure non-evaluative coaching cycles.

Step into October as we launch The Teaching Profession month across the Global GEG! In recognition of World Teachers' Day 2026, discover how educators are stepping into active leadership, shaping policy dialogue, and designing collaborative peer networks using Google Workspace and UNESCO frameworks. Read our launch post for actionable strategies, professional community workflows, and a new Gemini prompt to elevate educator voice!

Cultivating Deep Thinkers in an Instant-Search World

In an era of generative search engines and instant digital content, teaching digital literacy requires far more than showing students where to click. In the latest Global GEG webinar, award-winning South African educator and Google Innovator Thozama (Karmiel) Mathe outlines how he bridges the digital divide in rural classrooms by turning learners into "Community Fact-Finders and Solution Storytellers". From teaching lateral reading and image verification to implementing the KARMIEL framework and AI Traffic Lights for transparent citation, discover actionable strategies to slow down student search habits and build authentic digital fluency.

Ready to elevate media literacy in your school? Read our comprehensive event recap, explore step-by-step classroom blueprints, and join the international community discussion

Seeing Is No Longer Believing: Why Deepfake Detection Belongs in Your Back-to-School Plan

With AI-manipulated media fooling even seasoned journalists and forensics experts, we can no longer expect students to navigate the digital world on intuition alone. Critical media literacy can't wait for a mid-year digital citizenship unit; it needs to be built into your classroom routines from day one.

Discover how a new hands-on resource from Intel Skills for Innovation and Dell Technologies turns students aged 14–19 into Digital Forensics Investigators, teaching them to question, cross-examine evidence, and spot deepfakes before misinformation takes root.

As we continue our exploration of Literacy in a Digital Age, discover how educators are turning passive consumption into active digital analysis and deliberate composition. Read on for classroom strategies connecting critical reading with algorithmic critique, and register for two global professional exchanges happening this week in Spanish and English!

Dive deeper into Literacy in a Digital Age as we explore how to turn students from passive consumers of synthetic media into critical information architects. Discover practical pedagogical routines for deconstructing algorithmic bias, verifying multimodal claims, and structuring disciplined research using Google Workspace and UNESCO frameworks.

Technology in education often gets a bad rap for pushing one-size-fits-all lesson plans. But in classrooms from Indonesia to Brazil, teachers are flipping the script. Discover how the Intel® Skills for Innovation (SFI) Ambassador Community is using a shared global toolkit to celebrate regional languages, indigenous traditions, and local challenges - proving that the best learning happens when technology adapts to the student, not the other way around.

Celebrate International Literacy Day 2026 with the Global GEG! Discover how educators worldwide are expanding foundational literacy into digital discernment, critical AI critique, and data fluency. Read on for practical classroom routines using Google Workspace, international frameworks from UNESCO, and a new Gemini prompt to scaffold algorithmic literacy.

The September 2026 Content Drop webinar marked the first continuous monthly release following the May launch, introducing four brand-new modules to expand the catalog across K-12 and Higher Education.

Step into September as we explore Literacy in a Digital Age. Discover how educators across the globe are expanding foundational literacy to include AI literacy, data fluency, and algorithm evaluation. Read our theme launch post for actionable strategies, Google Workspace tools, UNESCO frameworks, and a brand-new Gemini classroom prompt!

Bring dynamic visual simulations into your classroom with Gemini, simplify assessment tracking in Google Sheets, and coordinate guest speakers effortlessly in Calendar.

Empowering Students as Caretakers of Place in the Digital Age

Digital tools make it easy to copy and publish media in seconds, but access is not ownership, and recording is not permission. In the latest Global GEG event, Aotearoa New Zealand educator Rachel Duckworth breaks down how to integrate indigenous knowledge and local narratives into the classroom without stripping away authentic cultural context. From exploring the Māori concepts of whenua (land connection) and tūrangawaewae (a place to stand) to implementing a five-step framework that turns passive consumers into responsible caretakers (kaitiaki), discover how to use the Google ecosystem to anchor students in the living stories of their own communities.

Ready to bring place-based digital literacy to your curriculum? Read our full event recap, explore practical classroom blueprints, and join the worldwide conversation.

As we wrap up our August focus on Indigenous Knowledge & Local Context, discover how grounding digital learning in local wisdom creates sustainable, lasting impact for primary and secondary learners. Read on for practical strategies to carry place-based learning forward, our final theme reflection, and a new Gemini prompt to map your local curriculum!

In a recent "EDU on Air for K-12" session, education leaders shared how school districts can move from AI policy anxiety to active, educator-led governance. Read on to learn how to design a pedagogy-first AI roadmap that integrates seamlessly with your existing guidelines.

Transform spreadsheets into interactive apps, capture in-person meetings with AI, and master calendar security! 📊 Discover how the latest Google Workspace updates streamline data, automate note-taking, and enhance administrative control in this week's Global GEG recap.

Discover how educators at LEO Academy Trust use AI as a "second pair of hands" to streamline lesson planning, admin tasks, and differentiation. In this insightful episode, you’ll learn how swapping manual heavy lifting for smart AI prompts can help you reclaim your time and focus more on your students.

Step into our third week of Indigenous Knowledge & Local Context as we examine how to ethically integrate regional ecological data and native language preservation into your daily curriculum using Google Workspace. Read on for practical teaching strategies, project frameworks, and our latest Gemini prompt!

Google Classroom recently underwent its most dramatic visual update. Watch GEG Instructional Coaches leaders @JeffBradbury & @CamiKann break down the new interface, student experience, and essential teaching features.

In our conversation together, Dr. Kirsti Lonka challenges the binary "good vs. bad" view of screen-time, urging educators to focus instead on how digital tools can foster active, knowledge-driven engagement rather than passive consumption. By designing lessons around real-world phenomena, teachers can bridge the gap between classroom learning and the collaborative, multidisciplinary nature of the modern world.

Trying to explain abstract concepts like empathy, gravity, or fractions to a 9-year-old? Learn how to use Gemini’s image generator behind the scenes to create concrete visual anchors and tactile printouts—leveraging CAST UDL guidelines and Harvard's 'See, Think, Wonder' routine—to make dense curriculum topics completely touchable.

Teaching students to navigate online claims is critical, but direct chatbot use is not always compliant for younger students. Learn how to use Gemini as your back-end generator to create physical, hands-on claim sorting decks—leveraging CAST UDL guidelines and Harvard's 'Claim, Support, Question' routine—that turn media literacy into an active offline team game."

Explore how educators are placing community heritage at the center of modern learning in our latest blog post for Indigenous Knowledge & Local Context month. Discover practical ways to archive oral histories, map local ecological wisdom with Google Workspace, and join our upcoming August 14 global event on building digital roots with educators from Indonesia.

Step into August as we explore Indigenous Knowledge & Local Context. Discover how educators across the globe are using Google Workspace and UNESCO frameworks to honor ancient wisdom, preserve local heritage, and build culturally responsive classrooms. Read our theme launch post for practical tools, project ideas, and classroom prompts!

Help me create in Google Forms now supports generating quizzes.

With this launch, you can quickly create a quiz by writing a specific prompt for Help me create describing the quiz you want to create. Your prompt can reference Google Drive files like Docs, Slides or PDFs to use as sources for the quiz, should you choose.

Are You Teaching Software Operations or Durable Life Skills?

In a digital landscape that evolves faster than traditional curricula, memorizing software menus is no longer enough. In the latest Global GEG panel, Pearl River County educators Tara Poolson and Ashton Treadaway break down how to pair digital literacy with student agency. From implementing a "Notice, Name, Next Step" routine for technical roadblocks to utilizing Google Workspace to make student thinking visible, discover practical strategies to transform your classroom into a space of active inquiry.

Ready to build future-ready learners? Read our complete event recap, access free curriculum resources, and join the global conversation on the Global GEG Space and through the official Google AI Educator Series Hub.

All educators know that the most precious resource in their day is time. In Northern Ireland, EdIS ran a 6-month long pilot, training 200+ teachers to leverage Gemini for Education and Notebook in their day-to-day activity. They captured over 600 use cases, with the average teacher saving 8 hours per week, and some saving up to 10! Learn more about how they did it.