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Google Puts ‘Learn Your Way’ AI Study Tool Into Labs After Promising Pilot

Early tests with 60 Chicago students showed higher three-day retention, with greater enjoyment reported.

Overview

  • Learn Your Way turns textbook chapters or PDFs into personalized, multimodal lessons powered by Google's LearnLM models.
  • The system adapts material to a learner’s grade level and interests and generates formats such as quizzes, audio lessons, mind maps, slides, illustrations, and timelines.
  • In a pilot with 60 high schoolers, students using the tool outperformed a control reading in Adobe Reader, scoring 77% versus 68% on a retention test three days later.
  • Participants reported enjoying the experience more and said they would want to use the tool again.
  • The experience is now available in Google Labs with a waitlist for full personalization, and Google cautions the findings are preliminary from a single-chapter trial that requires larger, controlled studies.