Teaching AI literacy to 80+ university students. And realizing how few of them had ever been taught this stuff at all.
I spent two hours with students from Comilla University, walking through NotebookLM and Gemini. Mind maps, quizzes, audio summaries, a dashboard built for exam prep. None of it is advanced. It's the kind of thing that should already be common knowledge for anyone in university right now.
It wasn't. Not one student in that room had used these tools for their own studies before.
That's the actual problem. AI is already shaping who gets hired, who gets into what program, who finishes their work faster and better. Universities are still treating it like a side topic. A workshop here, a guest speaker there, only when a student club decides to organize one.
It shouldn't work like that. AI literacy should sit next to math and English as a basic subject, not show up as a favor from an outside club. A student who knows how to build a real study system in NotebookLM already has an edge over one who doesn't, and most students haven't even heard of NotebookLM yet.
This was my first session like this, and the first time I've spoken to this many students at once. Rotaract Club of Comilla University put it together, credit to Tanvir bhai for building the curriculum around it.
If more clubs or departments want the same session run for their students, I'm open to it.
Hey, I'm Ahad Khaled. I'm the co-founder of RetainDTC, a Klaviyo email marketing agency based in the US, and I've spent the last five years in content marketing.
These days I also teach AI to non-technical people so they don't get left behind, and can use it as an actual advantage instead of a buzzword.
Besides, I'm building LearnUp, an EdTech platform helping students speak English with confidence, and I run a YouTube channel with 18,000+ subscribers.
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