November 2025
"We are pleased to share with you the key highlights from the October 2025 EdTech Newsletter, where you will find curated updates on the latest trends, innovations, and best practices in educational technology. You can access the full content through the link below"
Google Gemini 3 Pro Update: Key Developments
Google has announced the release of Gemini 3 Pro, its most advanced multimodal large-language model to date. The new model demonstrates substantial improvements in reasoning, analysis, and complex problem-solving, outperforming the previous Gemini 2.5 Pro across multiple benchmark evaluations. Gemini 3 Pro also introduces a dedicated “Deep Think” mode, designed to enhance multi-step reasoning for tasks requiring higher cognitive depth. In addition to its analytical gains, the model shows significant progress in multimodal performance, achieving strong results in visual and video-based comprehension benchmarks.
On the developer side, Gemini 3 Pro offers new configuration options that allow fine-grained control over reasoning depth and media processing, including adjustable parameters for thinking intensity and visual input resolution. The updated API further expands function-calling capabilities, enabling multimodal outputs such as images and structured documents. Complementing these technical upgrades, the Gemini application interface has been redesigned to provide streamlined model selection and improved content organization.
With these advancements, Gemini 3 Pro positions itself as a high-performance AI system suited for advanced research, sophisticated analysis, and complex educational or professional workflows.
For more details please click here:
https://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-3/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
How Nano Banana Pro helps you bring any idea or design to life
Google has unveiled Nano Banana Pro, its latest advanced image generation and editing model built on the Gemini 3 Pro architecture. The new system represents a significant upgrade over the previous Nano Banana model, offering higher visual fidelity, more accurate text rendering, and enhanced scene-editing controls suitable for both creative and professional applications.
One of the model’s most notable improvements is its ability to generate clean, readable, and correctly positioned text within images, including multilingual content an area where earlier generative models often struggled. This enhancement makes the tool particularly valuable for producing posters, marketing materials, instructional graphics, and design mock-ups.
Nano Banana Pro also delivers substantial advances in scene manipulation. Users can modify lighting, camera angles, depth of field, and color schemes, and can even transform entire environments such as converting a daytime scene into a nighttime setting. The model supports output resolutions up to 2K and 4K, enabling professional-quality results suitable for high-resolution media production.
The new system introduces expanded capabilities for creative consistency as well. It can integrate up to 14 reference images into a single composition and maintain coherent visual identity for up to five individuals within a scene. This level of consistency is particularly useful for storyboarding, advertising campaigns, character design, and multi-image creative workflows.
In terms of trust and safety, Nano Banana Pro includes built-in content authenticity features, embedding SynthID watermarks and C2PA metadata to clearly identify AI-generated imagery. These measures aim to promote transparency and responsible use across digital platforms.
Accessibility has also been broadened. Nano Banana Pro is now available within the Gemini app, integrated into Workspace tools such as Google Slides and Google Vids, and supported across platforms like NotebookLM. For developers, the model is accessible through the Gemini API, Google AI Studio, and Vertex AI providing a flexible foundation for enterprise-level creative and automation pipelines.
For more details please click here:
https://blog.google/technology/ai/nano-banana-pro/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
International Study Explores AI-Supported Educational Dialogue
A recent Cambridge-hosted workshop examined the role of artificial intelligence in educational dialogue, focusing on how AI interaction can influence deep thinking, critical reasoning, and learning outcomes. Researchers and educators discussed pedagogical approaches that integrate human–AI interaction to enhance classroom dialogue and student engagement.
The findings are particularly relevant for teachers, as they provide insights into dialogue-based instructional strategies supported by AI. Such research may guide the development of future classroom practices, helping educators structure AI use in ways that promote meaningful learning experiences.
Meet NEO: The Humanoid Home Robot Set to Transform Domestic Life
1X Technologies has unveiled NEO, a humanoid home robot designed to assist with everyday household tasks. The robot is capable of performing chores such as laundry, cleaning, organizing, and even basic kitchen assistance.
NEO features a human-like body with soft materials and articulated joints, allowing it to safely navigate domestic environments while interacting closely with people. Its design emphasizes both functionality and safety, making it suitable for homes with children or pets.
The robot is currently offered at a price of $20,000 or via a $499 monthly subscription, with first deliveries expected in 2026. During the initial rollout, NEO will also leverage remote operator support, enabling users to teach the robot new tasks through guided interactions.
1X Technologies positions NEO as part of a broader vision for AI-assisted living, where humanoid robots can reduce everyday workloads and enhance quality of life. As smart home technology continues to advance, NEO represents one of the first steps toward fully integrated domestic AI companions.
For more details please click here:
