Google’s announced Search changes leave schools without an AI-free option for managed student accounts. Here’s what’s changing, what remains unclear, and five questions to ask your district.

Use AI for the holidays to plan meals, simplify shopping, organize travel, and reduce the mental load. Try 15 practical ideas and ready-to-use prompts.

What if students could get help working through a problem while you’re helping another group? Guided Learning in Google Classroom lets you attach an AI-supported activity to an assignment using materials from your own lesson. Students can ask questions, explain where they’re stuck, and work through ideas with Gemini. The goal is support, not anContinue Reading

What if your students could learn and interact in immersive experiences, exploring how things work and making connections as they go? That’s the idea behind Gemini Immersive Explorations. These ready-made learning experiences inside Gemini, Google’s AI assistant, let students explore a topic through interactive visuals and explanations. They can investigate how lightning forms, how aContinue Reading

Did you know you can create interactive simulations and learning games with Gemini? And now you can even publish them in Google Sites! Create an activity built around what you’re teaching, with the vocabulary, challenge, and support your students need. Students could move objects to test an idea, make a choice in a game, orContinue Reading

AI tools for teachers keep changing, but the goal hasn’t: spend less time starting from scratch and more time on the work that matters to your students. Maybe you need to adapt a reading passage, get a first draft of a rubric, or find a better way to hear students explain their thinking. There areContinue Reading

Ever opened several Google Docs just to finish one task? You find the plan, then go looking for the materials list or the notes you need to update it. Google Docs tabs can keep that related information together. Think of them as labeled sections inside one document. You can jump straight to the section youContinue Reading

One Place to Find Google News and Updates Google has a lot going on! Between Workspace, Gemini, Chrome, and everything else, keeping up can mean bouncing between websites. Here’s one worth bookmarking: Google’s official blog. When I first shared this resource in 2016, it was called The Keyword Blog. Today, you’ll see News from Google,Continue Reading

If it feels like AI vocabulary changes every week, you are not imagining it. First came prompts, Gemini Gems, and custom GPTs. Now Google, ChatGPT, and Claude are talking about Skills, Projects, Apps, Connectors, Plugins, Agents, Automations, Tasks, Schedules, and Workflows. Many of these tools are being developed directly for teachers, like Claude for TeachersContinue Reading

You already know Amazon Prime includes fast shipping. That is probably why most people sign up in the first place. But if shipping is the only Prime benefit you use, you may be leaving a surprising amount of value on the table. Your membership may also give you restaurant-delivery perks, unlimited photo storage, fuel savings,Continue Reading