Google近日宣布，将从2027年开始调整面向K-12学校教育用户的人工智能策略，允许学校自主决定是否启用Gemini等AI工具。然而，这项看似给予学校更多选择权的新政策，却引发了教育界的广泛讨论，因为Google同时确认，若学校决定完全禁用AI功能，学生也将无法继续使用Google Search搜索服务。
根据Google公布的计划，自2027年起，学校管理的K-12学生账户中，Gemini、NotebookLM、Gemini in Classroom以及Google Search相关AI功能将默认关闭，只有在学校管理员主动启用后才能使用。Google表示，这一决定是在与学校、教师、研究人员以及政策制定者沟通后作出的，目的是让教育机构能够根据自身需求决定AI工具的使用方式。
不过，真正引发关注的是搜索服务的处理方式。Google教育业务副总裁Chris Phillips在接受采访时表示，由于搜索与人工智能已经实现深度融合，因此学校若选择彻底禁用AI，学生将无法继续访问Google Search。届时，相关账户尝试使用搜索功能时，只会看到由学校管理员设置的提示信息，说明该服务已被停用。
这一表态意味着，学校实际上无法仅关闭AI生成内容而保留传统搜索功能。许多教师希望学生能够继续使用搜索引擎查阅资料、寻找原始信息来源，同时避免直接依赖AI生成答案完成学习任务。然而按照Google目前的架构设计，二者已经无法单独分离。
近年来，Google Search不断强化人工智能功能。从最初的AI Overviews智能摘要，到后来的AI Mode对话式搜索体验，AI已经逐渐成为搜索服务的重要组成部分。Google在2026年Google I/O开发者大会期间也明确表示，希望通过统一入口消除传统搜索与AI搜索之间的界限，让用户无需思考应当进入哪种模式，而是直接获得系统认为最适合的结果。
对于学校而言，这意味着未来必须在两种模式之间作出选择。要么接受包含AI功能的Google Search，要么完全放弃使用Google搜索服务。这种做法也再次凸显出Google在教育市场的重要影响力。由于Chromebook设备以及Google教育套件长期占据学校市场重要地位，许多教育机构都高度依赖其生态系统。
与此同时，Google还宣布将在教育领域推广名为“Guided Learning”的新AI学习工具。与传统聊天机器人直接给出答案不同，该系统被设计为类似数字导师，通过引导式提问帮助学生逐步理解知识点，而非简单获取结果。Google表示，该产品的目标是提升学习过程中的思考深度，以回应外界对于生成式AI削弱学习能力的担忧。
尽管Google强调将赋予学校更多控制权，但其“无AI即无搜索”的立场仍在教育界引发争议。随着人工智能不断融入互联网核心产品，传统搜索与AI能力之间的边界正在迅速消失。而对于学校、教师以及学生而言，如何在享受新技术便利与维护自主学习能力之间取得平衡，或将成为未来几年教育科技领域最重要的话题之一。
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Google recently announced that the artificial intelligence strategy for educational users in K-12 schools will be adjusted starting in 2027, allowing schools to decide whether or not to use other AI tools such as Gemini. However, this new policy, which appears to give schools more choice, has given rise to extensive discussion in the educational community, as Google has also confirmed that if schools decide to completely disable AI, students will not be able to continue using Google Search.
According to the plan published by Google, from 2027 onwards, the relevant AI functions of Gemini, NotebookLM, Gemini in Classroom and Google Search, which are managed by the schools, will be closed by default and will be used only upon the initiative of the school administrator. Google stated that this decision was made after communicating with schools, teachers, researchers and policymakers, with the aim of enabling educational institutions to determine the use of AI tools according to their needs.
However, there is a real concern about how search services are handled. In an interview, Chris Phillips, Vice-President of Google Education Operations, stated that students would not be able to continue to visit Google Search if schools chose to completely disable AI, as search and artificial intelligence had been deeply integrated. At that point, when the relevant account attempts to use the search function, it only sees a hint set by the school administrator that the service has been disabled.
This statement means that schools are effectively unable to retain traditional search functions by simply shutting down AI-generated content. Many teachers hope that students will continue to use search engines to access information and find original sources of information, while avoiding direct reliance on AI to generate answers for learning tasks. However, according to Google ' s current architecture, the two cannot be separated.
In recent years, Google Search has been enhancing artificial intelligence. From the original AI Overviews smart summary to the subsequent AI Mode dialogue search experience, AI has gradually become an important part of the search service. Google also made it clear during the Google I/O Development Conference in 2026 that it wished to eliminate the boundaries between traditional and AI searches through a single portal, so that users would not have to think about which model to enter, but would simply obtain what the system considered to be the most appropriate outcome.
For schools, this means that choices must be made between the two models in the future. Either you accept Google Search, which contains AI functions, or you completely abandon Google search. This approach also highlights once again the important influence of Google in the education market. Many educational institutions are highly dependent on their ecosystems because of the long-standing importance of the school market in the Chromebook equipment and the Google education package.
At the same time, Google announced the promotion of the new AI learning tool called “Guided Learning” in the field of education. Unlike traditional chat robots, which give direct answers, the system is designed to be a digital mentor, helping students to understand points of knowledge over time, rather than simply reaping results, by leading questions. According to Google, the objective of the product is to increase the depth of thinking in the learning process in order to respond to external concerns about the erosion of learning capacity in generating AI.
Despite Google's emphasis on giving schools more control, its “no-AI-no-search” position is still controversial in education. As artificial intelligence becomes integrated into core Internet products, the boundary between traditional search and AI capabilities is rapidly disappearing. For schools, teachers and students, the balance between access to new technologies and the preservation of self-learning capabilities will be one of the most important topics in the field of education, science and technology in the coming years.
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