Uploaded September 2026 | Updated September 2026, 50 minutes ago
In the two weeks after GPT-6 Astra launched, the people asking AI to slow down were the people building it. The Treasury Secretary said you cannot pause. Beijing called it fear mongering. There is no single article for that story. There is a debate.
This is how I build a Gemini Notebook for a story like that in about 45 minutes, using a tool every teacher on a Google education account already has. Four buckets of sources, one Deep Research run to expand them, a sorting table so I can check the pile before I trust it, four questions, and the customization box where the teaching happens.
Open the finished notebook and use it with a class:
notebook.google.com/notebook/6246ae0b-3c04-42be-8db8-8f28877a41a9
Full written guide with every prompt and three classroom exercises: coffeeforthebrain.com/build-a-notebook-for-the-story-your-students-are-asking-about
Starter sources, sorted by bucket:
docs.google.com/document/d/1Eg1oYNdgwJCcRIb2iszIjKYovHa9fFYthYLkKGsbx8I/edit?usp=sharing
The sorted sources table:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qSXOkfAPdBsAr9rpvVQRoq-t5YEZSuUDiyA5-_GhRXg/edit?usp=sharing
Default infographic vs. customized:
notebook.google.com/notebook/6246ae0b-3c04-42be-8db8-8f28877a41a9/artifact/b96728e1-6c05-4db5-9a5c-a05b5d269401
notebook.google.com/notebook/6246ae0b-3c04-42be-8db8-8f28877a41a9/artifact/2cfb6f8e-0e23-461b-9ab3-ac744edb0efe
Gemini Notebook limits by account type:
support.google.com/gemininotebook/answer/16337734
Chaos Navigators newsletter:
aaronmaurer.substack.com
Last week's issue, the Hugging Face incident told two ways:
aaronmaurer.substack.com/p/twelve-hundred-agents-walked-out
Deep Research runs are limited on the free education tier. Check your account before you plan a lesson around it.
The tool is not the point. The pile is. Load one side, get one side.
In the two weeks after GPT-6 Astra launched, the people asking AI to slow down were the people building it. The Treasury Secretary said you cannot pause. Beijing called it fear mongering. There is no single article for that story. There is a debate.
This is how I build a Gemini Notebook for a story like that in about 45 minutes, using a tool every teacher on a Google education account already has. Four buckets of sources, one Deep Research run to expand them, a sorting table so I can check the pile before I trust it, four questions, and the customization box where the teaching happens.
Open the finished notebook and use it with a class:
notebook.google.com/notebook/6246ae0b-3c04-42be-8db8-8f28877a41a9
Full written guide with every prompt and three classroom exercises: coffeeforthebrain.com/build-a-notebook-for-the-story-your-students-are-asking-about
Starter sources, sorted by bucket:
docs.google.com/document/d/1Eg1oYNdgwJCcRIb2iszIjKYovHa9fFYthYLkKGsbx8I/edit?usp=sharing
The sorted sources table:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qSXOkfAPdBsAr9rpvVQRoq-t5YEZSuUDiyA5-_GhRXg/edit?usp=sharing
Default infographic vs. customized:
notebook.google.com/notebook/6246ae0b-3c04-42be-8db8-8f28877a41a9/artifact/b96728e1-6c05-4db5-9a5c-a05b5d269401
notebook.google.com/notebook/6246ae0b-3c04-42be-8db8-8f28877a41a9/artifact/2cfb6f8e-0e23-461b-9ab3-ac744edb0efe
Gemini Notebook limits by account type:
support.google.com/gemininotebook/answer/16337734
Chaos Navigators newsletter:
aaronmaurer.substack.com
Last week's issue, the Hugging Face incident told two ways:
aaronmaurer.substack.com/p/twelve-hundred-agents-walked-out
Deep Research runs are limited on the free education tier. Check your account before you plan a lesson around it.
The tool is not the point. The pile is. Load one side, get one side.
