Campfire Session
Dec 16, 2025
Flint Wrapped 2025 recapped AI trends, personalized learning, real student outcomes, product updates, and what’s next for collaboration in K–12 classrooms.
Lulu Gao, Head of Teacher Experience at Flint | LinkedIn
In this Flint Wrapped 2025 Campfire Session, we reflected on a year of rapid growth in AI for education, explored how schools are moving from experimentation to measurable impact, and shared how students and educators are using Flint to power personalized learning. The session featured platform usage insights, student ambassador stories, major product updates from 2025, and a look ahead at what’s coming next.
Content covered in this session includes:
An overview of major AI trends in education, including the rise of independent student AI use, growing acceptance of AI in classrooms, and the industry’s convergence around personalized learning.
A discussion on how schools are shifting into year three of generative AI adoption, with a stronger focus on defining metrics, collecting usage data, and measuring outcomes beyond anecdotes.
A breakdown of Flint usage from January 1 to December 15, including over 2 million sessions, 160,000+ activities created, 300,000+ members, and a 150% year-over-year growth in users.
Insights into how students are using Flint across subjects, with strong adoption in English, social studies, science, and World Language, and growing use of oral activities to support accessibility and diverse learning needs.
Student ambassador stories highlighting how Flint supports homework review, AP coursework, college-level concepts, language practice, test prep, creative projects, and confidence-building without giving direct answers.
A walkthrough of key Flint product updates from 2025, including Whiteboard, learning goals and background, Sparky, lifelike voices, Drive integrations, moderation controls, analytics, Gradebook, and paste history tracking.
Educator feedback on high-impact features such as expanded moderation settings, full-screen documents and graphs, and analytics for identifying student needs and instructional gaps.
A look ahead to 2026, with community-driven ideas around student collaboration, project-based organization, milestones toward mastery, and continued investment in analytics, personalization, and interactive learning.
Slides from the presentation can be found here.
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Introduction • 00:00
Lulu introduces the session and agenda.
Ice-breaking trends • 01:44
Lulu shares her insights on AI usage in education this past year, including the rise of student independent use of AI, personalized learning, and measuring AI's outcomes.
So far this year… • 04:51
Lulu reviews year-to-date Flint activity, highlighting strong growth in members and sessions, with 150% growth versus last year and a surge in new activities.
There is emphasis on the distribution of usage across subjects, noting English, social studies, science, and World Language as top users, with some activity in physical education and arts.
Student shareouts • 06:52
Molly, Flint student representative, shares how she uses Flint regularly across rigorous classes like AP Environmental Science and social studies because it guides her thinking instead of giving direct answers.
Molly appreciates Flint's positive reinforcement, which helps reduce academic burnout, and its ability to answer her specific questions alongside assigned work. As a Flint student representative, she’s even designing a personalized SAT vs. ACT decision activity to help students (and her school counseling center) make more informed, less stressful testing choices.
Abeny, a senior at an international school in South Korea, values Flint because it strengthens critical thinking rather than replacing it. Her first experience debating Sparky in a TOK Socratic seminar showed her how Flint can act as a true learning partner.
As a student representative, Abeny built 15 custom tutors, used Flint for personal statement workshops, exam review, and language practice, and encouraged peers to create their own tools.
Audrey, Flint student representative, shared how she uses Flint for advanced math problems, particularly illustrating the benefits of Flint's interactive whiteboard feature to draw out graphs and equations.
Updates this year • 27:39
Several major changes are highlighted: introduction of whiteboard, chat mode for building activities, and AI-powered analytics in groups and workspace.
March saw new roles (student and teacher) with behavior changes based on role, plus classroom safety guards and teacher chats.
April expanded language support and improved image capabilities, with moderation and safety features in place.
May introduced the school library, custom mission/background, and content context for schools, plus session sorting by last name.
June to August highlighted Sparky, memories, and profile integration, along with learning goals, group context, Google Drive integration, and engagement alerts.
September added LaTeX support and improved image editing, while October allowed date-restricted availability, full-screen attachments, and improved camera functionality.
November expanded moderation emails, configurable alert options, and enhanced workspace analytics; December continued with highly requested launches and branding updates.
Conclusion • 41:57
Discussion focuses on which Flint features are used, what excites participants, and how Flint should grow next year.
Participants share observations on student tools like writing tutors, AI aids, and the balance between assistance and learning.
To learn more, folks can go to the Campfire Calendar, Flint's Instagram (which has a bunch of teacher-facing content), and the Flint Community.
