Update: Google confirms — Gemini and Search stay off for K-12 students until the school turns them on; Guided Learning lands in Classroom
In the official Education blog (11/03), Chris Phillips (VP of Education) announced that access to Gemini, Gemini Notebook, Gemini in Classroom and Google Search will be fully off for K-12 student accounts until the school admin explicitly turns them on; details and timeline come in the coming months. In the same post, Google launches Guided Learning in Google Classroom (available globally today): a teacher-assigned activity anchored in class materials, with open questions and steps instead of a final answer, plus real-time insights for the teacher. In Search, Guided Learning enters a pilot in selected US schools later this month. The Washington Post and The Guardian covered the controversy over the Search+AI “bundle.”