
Campfire Session
Nov 11, 2025
Explore innovative AI-powered exam preparation strategies including teacher-created activities, student chat sessions, and student-designed study materials for effective test readiness.

Lulu Gao, Head of Teacher Experience at Flint | LinkedIn
In this Campfire Session, our team explored how educators are leveraging AI to transform exam preparation across multiple dimensions. We showcased teacher-created exam prep activities that provide structured study support, examined how students use AI chat sessions to reinforce their understanding, and highlighted student-created activities that empower learners to take ownership of their test preparation. You'll discover practical approaches to help your students prepare more effectively while building critical thinking and self-directed learning skills.
Content covered in this session includes:
Introduction and teacher-created exam prep activities
Activity creation tips and examples
Student-led learning and activity creation
Slides from the presentation can be found here.
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Introduction • 00:00
Lulu introduces the session and agenda.
Ice-breaking news • 01:52
Ice breaking introduces session late start and potential international participants joining.
Glance at branding update and rebranding of slides before diving into exam prep activities.
Discussion on AI in education note about India mandating AI curriculum from grade three and implications for Flint schools.
Exam prep activities • 03:57
A preset AI tutoring activity is selected to create a review experience for pre-algebra students using older exam questions.
Flint is demonstrated, highlighting chat-like interactions, the ability to simulate a session, and how Flint handles problem-solving prompts.
The facilitator explains how to customize prompts, tracking of prompts for newer activities, and how to view back-and-forth conversations within activity settings.
Jitender asks about GDC availability in Flint and used in IB/I GCSE contexts. Lulu Gao clarifies calculator limitations and confirms current calculator modes and thanks him for this feedback for the team.
Tips and ideas for activities • 18:47
Discussion covers best practices for creating prompts, including previewing, iterating, and using examples to guide content.
Student creation of chats and activities • 20:19
Explanation of student and teacher perspectives on using chats and activities, highlighting that Flint responds differently to teachers and students and showing examples of a teacher session versus a student session.
Notes on student-created activities, the popularity of a specific activity type, and how public libraries house activities for easy access, with emphasis on adaptation for different examination styles (SAT, ACT, AP, IB).
Lulu demonstrates how to create a student study guide in Flint, showing steps from selecting help to generate a guide and then adjusting it for student view.
A student-focused workflow is shown: uploading resources, specifying topics, units, timeframes, and preferred formats to tailor the study guide.
Discussion confirms hand-drawn graphs can be uploaded and graded by Flint using the Whiteboard tool or photos, with feedback provided and alignment to the IB mark scheme.
During use cases, concerns about preventing copy-paste graphs are raised; limitations noted on restricting uploads, while instructors can design activities to enforce hand-drawing and monitor student sessions.
Strategies to ensure academic honesty are debated, including optionality of assignments, in-class administration for required tasks, and revealing how practice improves grades; emphasis on balancing AI support with authentic work.
Workflow improvements discussed: after reviewing a student chat, transcripts can be converted into documents, pasted into Flint to automatically generate activities, and instructors can reuse content to create new activities efficiently.
Audience shareout • 39:43
Lulu Gao introduces a sharing segment where heads in the room hear updates and context from a recent conference in Jakarta.
Lulu Gao discuss a Spanish teacher's classroom activity where students interview peers, create and use new activities in Spanish, and provide feedback, illustrating student collaboration and usage of Flint for exam prep.
Sanjeev asks about German language practice tools and feedback, prompting Lulu Gao to confirm Flint can function as a speaking partner and support feedback in German or other languages.
Geetha Venugopal describes using Flint as a personal tutor with a concise 10-word prompt and emphasizes iterative prompting and guided questions to ensure mastery.
Geetha Venugopal highlights analytics features for teachers and the usefulness of follow-up activities based on classroom strengths and weaknesses.
Conclusion • 52:30
Lulu outlines future Flint Campfires and resources.
Lulu shares QR codes for people to check out the Campfire Calendar, Flint's Instagram (which has a bunch of teacher-facing content), and the Flint Community.

