{"id":11727,"date":"2025-09-14T07:10:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T14:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/?p=11727"},"modified":"2025-09-14T23:16:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T06:16:49","slug":"notebook-lm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2025\/09\/14\/notebook-lm\/","title":{"rendered":"Notebook LM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Notebook LM is a mobile application that Google has created to utilize its AI, Gemini 2.0, to summarize and refine notes and other information sources. The note files can be in different forms (i.e., PDFs, Google Docs), but more importantly, audio files and YouTube can be easily summarized. The app can even create explicit connections between all the information for the user. Different from other resources, the app includes citations so that students are able to refer back to the original source of the information. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Check it out here: <a href=\"https:\/\/notebooklm.google\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/notebooklm.google\/\">Notebook LM <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of its most powerful abilities is the ability to generate audio guides so that students will be able to study on the go. In fact, one of the perks of using this feature is that conversations can be had with Gemini so that students can ask questions or use it as a quizzing feature where they are asked questions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, more features come with a cost. Alarmingly, it is only the updated version where there is &#8216;better data protection&#8217; for the user. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a result, a few questions come to mind: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1.) Will students merely memorize what has been summarized for them when they do not have to do the work of understanding the material themselves? Will students further lose the ability to create new and creative connections when it is done for them? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2.) What is the information that Google is collecting and being used for? Should the fact that an upgrade is required for better security be condoned legally? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notebook LM is a mobile application that Google has created to utilize its AI, Gemini 2.0, to summarize and refine notes and other information sources.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2025\/09\/14\/notebook-lm\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Notebook LM<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":105142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[103,24],"class_list":["post-11727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobiletechnologies","tag-ai","tag-mobile-technologies","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11728,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11727\/revisions\/11728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}