National Consortium for Languages Education
UCL Institute of Education
Reading Between the (AI‑Generated) Lines: Using NotebookLM in Language Learning – Jérôme Nogues (UCL IOE)
Google’s NotebookLM AI tool is especially well suited to teachers due to being free and ‘fenced’ (i.e. only generating outputs from resources uploaded by the teacher, which greatly reduces the risk of hallucinations and every output is traceable to a user-uploaded document). Demonstrated through A-level French resources and the film La Haine, this talk showcases four modes in which to deploy NotebookLM (tutor, quizmaster, storyteller, organiser of thought); and key types of output including audio and video overviews, mind maps, flashcards, infographics, AI-generated slide decks and interactive quizzes. The session also explores the risks of overreliance on AI tools for their speed and efficiency: might this lead us to stop thinking altogether? The session makes the case for teaching AI literacy explicitly to both teachers and pupils.
- Practical demo
- Teacher agency & pedagogy
- Pedagogical principles
- Big picture
Key words: Source-grounded AI; Cognitive offloading; AI literacy; A-level language learning; Multimodality.