Back to school has taken on a new meaning through this year’s global COVID-19 pandemic. Instead of attending school, many students around the world will take their education virtually. To help, Google is introducing new tools to help students at home, including a new Teaching Mode in Google Lens.
According to Google, if students encounter a particularly difficult math comparison, they can use Google Lens to help. Just take a picture of a comparison with Lens, and the Google-owned Socratic service will provide students with useful results.
In some cases, Socratic and Google Lens will display step-by-step manuals to solve the problem, along with detailed explanations to better understand key concepts. We first discovered that an education mode was coming to Lens, and it’s just in time for the new school year. The previously discovered “Places” mode also recently began to roll out, allowing you to scan images to detect famous landmarks and buildings.
The new Education and Places mode in Lens is being rolled out via a server-side update. Lens is a service within the Google App, so you need to download the latest version of that app from the Google Play Store to make sure you have access to these new modes. To access Lens, you can tap the button after calling Google Assistant, or you can download the Lens app from below, which simply works as a shortcut to Lens within the Google App.
In addition, Google announced that students can now visualize nearly 100 STEM concepts on topics including biology, chemistry, and more. For example, if students are looking for “Quantum mechanical model”, they can view a 3D atom up close and in augmented reality. The coming school year will be very different for many educators and students. Google’s new tools aim to make the situation a little easier.
