10-Minute Hack: Score a Google Educator Certificate Before They Patch It

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Worked like a charm…much appreciated.

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Worked Just Like That

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I scored 31 out of 37, resulting in a final score of 82%. If you wish, you can review the answers below. For some reason, questions 1 to 8 could not be found on Perplexity AI (chat history). Therefore, I have shared questions 9 to 37 as follows.

Question 9

An administrator at a school needs help drafting a job description for a new teaching position. Which approach using Gemini is most likely to streamline this administrative task?

Answer:
Enter a prompt in Gemini, acting as an Education HR specialist, requesting a job description for a teaching role including required skills and experience.

Question 10

A science teacher integrates Gemini into their lesson planning process by having it generate quiz questions and design lab activity instructions. The teacher then uses these materials directly with students without thoroughly reviewing the AI’s output for potential issues. What risks does this cause?

Answers (Select All Correct):

  • The teacher has become over-reliant on Gemini, and should spend their time creating the materials themselves.
  • The AI-generated content could be written at an inappropriate level for the students (either too simple or too complex).
  • The AI-generated content could contain factual inaccuracies, which are then passed to the student.

Question 11

The students in class have been completing some creative writing on helpful monsters. You want to generate an image of a monster your students have described, which of these prompts would be best for this task?

Answer:
Create an image of a helpful monster who loves to eat litter. They are a pink monster with a big smile and lots of hands for picking up items. Use a cartoon style and ensure the image is suitable for younger students.

Question 12

An educator has uploaded a collection of articles and research papers to NotebookLM for an upcoming project. They want to explore various ways students could demonstrate their understanding of the material through different project formats. How can NotebookLM help the educator create ideas for project formats grounded in the uploaded sources?

Answer:
Use NotebookLM’s chat feature to ask it for different potential project formats (like essays, presentations, debates, etc.) based on the content from the uploaded sources.

Question 13

Which of the following features is primarily designed to help create multi-page reports?

Answer:
Canvas

Question 14

What specific type of AI refers to a system which can create new types of content, such as text, images, or video?

Answer:
Generative AI

Question 15

What does the “Share and Export” button in Gemini allow you to do? (Select all which apply)

Answers (Select All Correct):

  • Export to Docs
  • Create a webpage
  • Download a PDF
  • Draft in Gmail

Question 16

A teacher asks a generative AI to summarize a historical event. The response is well-written, but includes a specific date for a battle that the teacher believes is incorrect. What is the best way to handle this situation?

Answer:
Treat the incorrect date as a likely hallucination and fact-check the information using reliable, primary sources before using it.

Question 17

An educator is starting a large research project with dozens of articles and notes. How would NotebookLM be most beneficial in the initial stages?

Answer:
By synthesizing information across all uploaded documents to help them find connections and draft an outline.

Question 18

A history teacher wants to implement a strategy to help students develop AI literacy by understanding the limitations of AI tools, specifically how AI output can contain factual inaccuracies or biases. Which of the following strategies would be most effective in teaching students to critically evaluate AI-generated content for accuracy and bias?

Answer:
Engaging students in an activity where they compare and contrast AI-generated summaries of historical events with verified textbook information, actively identifying discrepancies, biases, and unstated assumptions, followed by a class discussion on why these issues occur.

Question 19

You can listen to a response in Gemini for Education?

Answer:
True

Question 20

A new sports coach at school uploads the team’s playbook and last season’s game summaries to NotebookLM. What is the most effective way to prepare for the new season?

Answer:
Asking it to 'Identify which plays from the playbook were most successful according to the game summaries.’

Question 21

An English teacher uses Gemini to generate a list of essay topics for a unit on persuasive writing. The AI provides a list that includes some potentially controversial topics, what should they do?

Answer:
Critically review each topic for its age-appropriateness, potential to foster respectful debate, factual neutrality, and any inherent biases, then revise the output before using with students.

Question 22

An educator frequently performs repetitive tasks, such as generating variations of lesson plans for different class periods. How can they use Gemini’s ‘Gems’ feature to save time on this?

Answer:
Create a custom ‘Gem’ in Gemini with pre-set instructions and context for generating lesson plan variations, allowing them to quickly apply the Gem whenever needed.

Question 23

You can upload your own files to a Gem

Answer:
True

Question 24

To make it easier to share into Google Classroom you can share a link with students in Classroom to direct them to Gemini’s Guided Learning Mode.

Answer:
True

Question 25

An educator wants to generate a vocabulary list for their next topic. Which option below would not help with this task?

Answer:
Use audio overviews in Gemini to create a podcast that introduces the new topic to your students, giving details of the students ages / grades, so that the content is appropriate for your class.

Question 26

A history teacher has uploaded several primary source documents about a specific event to NotebookLM. They want to find additional, related information from the web to broaden their students’ understanding. Which NotebookLM feature would help with this?

Answer:
The Discover Tool

Question 27

Your recent chats can be saved in Gemini?

Answer:
True

Question 28

To help geometry students overcome common misconceptions about finding the area of triangles, how can an educator best prompt Gemini to generate model answers addressing these errors?

Answer:
Act as a highly skilled high school math teacher specializing in diagnosing and addressing misconceptions, provide 3-4 model responses addressing common student errors, including detailed explanations suitable for students.

Question 29

An educator is using Google Docs with a Google AI Pro for Education, which allows them to generate new content without leaving Docs.

Answer:
True

Question 30

Students are using Gemini for research on a current event for a class project. To foster critical thinking skills regarding the AI-generated information, which teacher action would be most effective?

Answer:
Assign students the task of cross-referencing at least three key facts provided by Gemini with independent, reputable sources, and then discuss any discrepancies they find.

Question 31

An educator uses a generative AI tool to help create a first draft of a lesson plan. To effectively keep themselves “in the loop,” what is the most critical next step?

Answer:
Use their professional judgment to review, edit, and adapt the AI’s output to align with curriculum standards and their specific students’ needs.

Question 32

Which of the following describes a Gem?

Answer:
Gems let you save detailed prompt instructions for your most repeatable tasks so you can save time using Gemini.

Question 33

Which Google tools offer an integration with Gemini? (Select all which apply)

Answers (Select All Correct):

  • Google Drive
  • Google Classroom
  • Google Calendar
  • Google Meet

Question 34

What task does Deep Research in Gemini perform?

Answer:
Browse websites, think through the findings, and create multi-page reports

Question 35

Which of these statements best describes Guided Learning in Gemini?

Answer:
Guided Learning completes detailed research into a topic. Gemini will read a number of websites and produce a detailed report of its findings.

Question 36

How can an educator utilize Gemini to generate a creative writing prompt for a poetry unit aimed at high school students?

Answer:
Input a prompt in Gemini requesting a unique, imaginative, or thought-provoking poetry prompt, specifying the grade level and desired theme.

Question 37

A school administrator would like to create an email newsletter for parents. Which tool(s) could they use? Select all which apply.

Answers (Select All Correct):

  • Gemini for Education
  • Google Docs (with Gemini in Google Docs)
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Do I need to give lab exam and all as well?