AI Advocates

S1 E3: Summarizing Smarter: How ThatNeedle Gist Enhances Learning

• Lisa Dieker • Season 1 • Episode 3

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In this episode of AI Advocates, Dr. Lisa Dieker and Dr. Maggie Mosher explore ThatNeedle Gist, a Chrome extension designed to summarize YouTube videos quickly and efficiently. They discuss how this tool enhances accessibility by providing text-based summaries, making video content more digestible for different learners. Lisa and Maggie highlight its usefulness for study guides and language translation, while also cautioning users about privacy considerations when using the tool. Tune in to hear their insights on how ThatNeedle Gist can save time, support diverse learners, and improve engagement with video content! 

That Needle Gist Link: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/thatneedle-gist-youtube-s/kniggnopbpfiankkpmgicflmdaidjhgi?hl=en 

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Lisa Dieker:

Hi, welcome to AI Advocates. I'm Dr. Lisa Dieker,

Maggie Mosher:

and I'm Dr. Maggie Moser,

Lisa Dieker:

and we're with you again from the University of Kansas, talking about something I found on There's An AI For That, one of my favorite little search fight sites called Needle Gist. So Maggie, I know you also have used Needle Gist your thoughts you want to start kick us off?

Maggie Mosher:

Yeah, I love ThatNeedle Gist. When you're looking it up, you actually have to have the word "that" first. But ThatNeedle Gist is an extension in Chrome. And what I love about it is, for those YouTube summaries, it gives me the topics at the top, and then it gives me specific bullet points. And what, what that's helpful for is, I always am looking to see only YouTube videos. I only want to watch them if they're decent, really what I want them to be. And a lot of times they'll have great titles, and then the videos nothing about the title, or they'll have, you know, really great descriptions. But it's really at the very end that they talk about that for a minute. So I like that. It summarizes it. So I really know, is this worth my time to watch, or can I just use a summary and get the gist from it, and not even have to watch the 30 minute video, because I have a two second summary here that's just as helpful.

Lisa Dieker:

Yeah, and the other reason I really like it is similar to what you said, but for those you haven't seen it, on your left hand side would be your YouTube video, and then Needle, ThatNeedle Gist pops up with this narrative of everything in the video, and it takes what I don't know microsecond, and then you can close the little needle, and it will disappear and reappear. But for our friends, who are not really loving video, and would rather read, it gives a UDL component to it. I also think it's great because you can copy and paste the text for a study guide. I love EdPuzzle, which is another piece where you can stop the video and ask a question. I'd be using Needle Gist to get my questions in the middle of the video, because again, now I don't have to type it. It's already written out, and I can say, "What were two things you noticed at this point," and if the students in EdPuzzle couldn't answer it. So it's a way to put a lot of things together and and I even like taking ThatNeedle Gist text and lowering the Lexile level and having it or in another language, and having one of my friends that might struggle with this video, read that first and explain it in their language, so that when they hear it in English, it's a nice bridge. So lots of things that I find it as a bridge strategy that I can use. Other thoughts you have for it, Maggie?

Maggie Mosher:

Yeah, I also think we're going to talk about this one later, but I think putting it into other AI apps that then make specific activities for it all that language is already there, so all I have to do is put it in there, click it, and it'll make all these activities. So I think it does a lot more. It gives us a lot more abilities than just what we had to begin with. But I will say the warning on ThatNeedle Gist.

Lisa Dieker:

A warning, a warning.

Maggie Mosher:

A warning is make sure only keep it on the toggle on for when you are watching YouTube videos, because when you sign up for it, you are giving it rights to everything on your screen while it's on, so only turn it on and make sure nothing else is on your screen, that you have private information on or that you're working on, that you don't want the internet to have permanently. So just make sure you only have the YouTube videos on. And that's going to be important to tell students too if you're ever having them use it is nothing on your screen, but that YouTube video while it does its thing, and then turn it off.

Lisa Dieker:

Well and as my last thought is, let's go really narrow AI. Remember, always turn on the closed captioning, always turn on. And there's so many languages you can pick and choose, so there's no reason students could have headphones on, and half is watching it in English, half in French, and maybe they're taking a French class at the high school, and you're working on advanced skills with that group. It doesn't always have to be one or the other. And we'll keep talking about that. But that's what I like about ThatNeedle Gist. It really kind of prompts your mind in saying, why is it that we think videos are just as good for kids when some kids really learn better from flat print, and some kids learn better from talking. And again, it's just one of those UDL natures. Any last thought, Maggie?

Maggie Mosher:

Yep, I think just try it out and see what you think.

Lisa Dieker:

Yeah, so we are AI Advocates, and we advocate for you to try ThatNeedle Gist. Thanks for joining us.

Maggie Mosher:

Bye.