Upskill
You have built a solution deck. Upskill builds the skills that make it real. Try this month's Tool of the Month, Google Vids, by making a short clip about your solution with your team, then remix one of your own prompts into something your organization can reuse. Both end in something you share on Discord. These hubs suit longer runs, and the credits below show whose ideas shaped this classroom.
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Turn your solution into a ten-second story.
Google Vids is Google's AI-powered video app, where you can create, write, edit, collaborate on and share videos in your browser. Its "Help me create" feature drafts a storyboard from your prompt and documents, suggesting scenes, stock media, scripts and text, and you then adjust the animations, transitions and music. It also has a read-along teleprompter and a transcript trim for editing by deleting words. Basic features work with a Google account, but the AI features depend on your account type; work and school accounts are controlled by an admin, and usage limits may apply. Check Google's availability page before you start.
Your team's job: make a clip of about ten seconds that shows your solution, and post it in the Discord upskill (or tool-hub) channel.
- Copy the prompt and share your Purpose Prompt and a short summary of your solution.
- Pick one of the three clip ideas your AI gives you.
- Paste its ready-made "Help me create" prompt into Google Vids and refine the draft.
- Post your clip in the Discord channel.
If Google Vids isn't available on your account, any simple video or slide-animation tool will do. The prompt adapts.
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Turn one prompt from your sprint into a tool your organization keeps.
Choose one prompt you used during this classroom. Your AI asks a few quick questions about where it could serve your organization, then remixes it into a reusable version and shows you variations. Work on it as a team, then share your best remix in the Discord prompt-remix channel.
Minds behind this classroom. These are the people, publications and organizations whose work shaped each article and story. Open the links to read them yourself.
Study · The Exponential Gap
- Azeem AzharAnalyst and author of Exponential · summary
- Anthropic Institute"When AI builds itself" · anthropic.com
- MIT Technology Review18 August 2026 article on recursive self-improvement · technologyreview.com
Explore · The Drummer and the Second Stick
- Jason BarnesDrummer and subject of the story · video
- Gil WeinbergProfessor and founding director, Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology · Georgia Tech News
- IEEE SpectrumReporting on the two-stick prosthesis · spectrum.ieee.org
- ASME"A Prosthetic Arm Bangs the Drums" · asme.org
- MathWorksHeadline story on modelling and set-up · blogs.mathworks.com
Explore · Business Stories
- Miso RoboticsFlippy fry station, which inspired the RoboChef story · fastcasual.com
- Cyberclick"Moonshot thinking: what it is and how to apply it to your company" · cyberclick.net
Ideate · The Thought Experiment
- Albert EinsteinPhysicist; the thought experiments described in the article · via Big Think
- Paul RatnerWriter, Big Think, "Learn How to Think Like Einstein" · bigthink.com
Develop · See & Spray
- Joshua LaddMarketing Manager for Application, John Deere · deere.com
- Deanna KovarPresident, Worldwide Agriculture and Turf Division, John Deere · global-agriculture.com
- Mark DanielWriter, Rural News Group · ruralnewsgroup.co.nz
Upskill · Google Vids
- Kevin StratvertCreator of the Google Vids beginner tutorial · kevinstratvert.com
Credits note. The people and organizations named here are credited as sources or as subjects of the stories. They have not reviewed or endorsed this classroom.
How the articles are made. Like a teacher sharing an article with a class, each article here is written with AI from the cited sources and independent research. The people and publications credited did not write or review it. The fictional business stories are labelled as fiction.
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Share what you made. Post your clip in the upskill channel, your best prompt remix in the prompt-remix channel, and your final deck in the Solution Hub.