Mr Hammerlund

The Chrome Search Engine Settings Page I believe technology should help us be more efficient or deepen our understanding. For the past few years, I have been a big fan of using site search in my browser. Site search allows you to type in a URL and press a key to be able to search the site directly from the Omnibox or the address bar.  This morning I was trying to get my address in Japan, which is stored in Google Keep, and I instinctively tried to hit tab so I could search through Keep for the note I was looking for. The problem was that I did not have Keep set up with site search.  Here is how to set it up. In your [Chrome-based] browser, go to Settings > Search Engine . Look for Manage Search Engines . Next fill out the search engine form replacing %s with the search query. Then when you go to a site, try searching on the site. When the search is finished, it will show you a URL.  In the example below, I am searching Google Drive. The resulting URL is https://d...

It is a well-known fact that students with a richer vocabulary tend to do better in school. Vocabulary is especially important in the older grades when the academic language increases in complexity. This is where I see many students struggle. One of my big questions since becoming a teacher has been to figure out how to build student vocabulary. Especially with EAL learners, it is hard to do because for the first few years, a student is in school, up until about third grade, he or she might appear as if everything is going ok. He or she might even be ahead of other students. But in about fourth grade, students can plateau when academic vocabulary becomes more challenging.  When I was in the classroom I was inconsistent with creating unit vocabulary lists. So the other day I saw what AI could do for me. I used Bard for this experiment. I started by writing what grade I was teaching. I also gave it information such as the Central Idea, ATL Skills, Key Concepts, and Learner Profile At...