A personal AI for better learning: can AI be a study companion?

New AI platforms integrated into school accounts, such as Google Gemini or NoteBookLM, are opening up exciting possibilities for personalized learning. Students using Google Workspace for Education can now “train” their own personal AI with study materials, teachers’ shared documents, notes, and personal reflections.

The concept is both simple and transformative: students can describe themselves to their AI assistant – explaining how they learn best, what challenges they face, and what kind of support they need – and ask it to adapt the content accordingly. The AI can then simplify complex texts, generate concept maps or diagrams, create illustrative drawings, and suggest targeted exercises or summaries.

In this way, materials provided by teachers become more accessible and personalized, helping each learner to understand better and to study more independently. It’s a quiet revolution: AI does not replace teachers but becomes a tool to enhance comprehension, engagement, and autonomy, making digital education truly inclusive.