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10 Apps for Teachers You Should Know About

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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">                App #1: <a href="http://toonoisyapp.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #428bca; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Apps for teachers - Too Noisy">Too Noisy</a></strong></h3>
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Do you think the hum of student chatter is too high when working in class? <a href="http://toonoisyapp.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #428bca; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Apps for teachers - Too Noisy">Too Noisy</a> helps you <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">control the background noise</strong> that exists in your classroom using visuals and in real-time. You set the appropriate level of noise and if your class rise above this level, an alarm will sound. Quiet please!</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">App #2: <a href="https://www.remind101.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #428bca; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Apps for teachers - Remind101">Remind101</a></strong></h3>
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<a href="https://www.remind101.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #428bca; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Apps for teachers - Remind101">Remind101</a> is a free app designed specifically for teachers. Using this popular app, teachers can <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">send notices and announcements to parents and students</strong>. This is nothing new but the real benefit of Remind101 is that teachers do not need to reveal their phone number or any other personal information to communicate with parents or students. Similarly, teachers do not have access personal details of the recipients. The emphasis on <b style="box-sizing: border-box;">privacy</b> is a real strength of Remind101.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">                 App #3: <a href="http://www.classdojo.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #428bca; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="apps for teachers - classDojo">ClassDojo</a></strong></h3>
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<a href="http://www.classdojo.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #428bca; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="apps for teachers - classDojo">ClassDojo</a> is a classroom tool that <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">helps teachers improve behavior in their classrooms</strong> quickly and easily. It also captures and generates data on behavior that teachers can share with parents and administrators. You can give feedback, encouragement and view data and reports on your students behavior using the app.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">                  App #4: <a href="http://gradebookapp.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #428bca; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Apps for teachers - GradeBook">GradeBook Pro</a></strong></h3>
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<a href="http://gradebookapp.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #428bca; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Apps for teachers - GradeBook">GradeBook Pro</a> is one of the most <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">comprehensive apps to help you manage your class</strong>. It allows you to monitor attendance but you can also add all kinds of annotations on your students to allow you to record the evolution of your students’ performances throughout the course. GradeBook may be the best ally for your memory, unfortunately it’s not free.<a class="cboxElement" href="https://info.examtime.com/files/2013/12/apple-icon.gif" rel="lightbox[10086]" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #428bca; text-decoration: none;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><img alt="apple icon" data-jpibfi-indexer="9" height="28" src="https://info.examtime.com/files/2013/12/apple-icon.gif" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle;" width="26" /></a></div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">App #5: <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/teachers-assistant-pro-classroom/id391643755?mt=8">Teacher’s Assistant Pro 2</a></strong></h3>
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Teacher’s Assistant Pro 2 is great alternative to the previous app. It offers a <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">multitude of functions to manage your class</strong>. Among the most interesting is the possibility to follow the evolution of a student’s behavior. You can also store student’s personal information such as address, siblings and even if they have allergies.  These features can greatly facilitate generating feedback reports to students’ parents.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">                App #6: <a href="http://www.educreations.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #428bca; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Apps for teachers - Educreations">Educreations</a></strong></h3>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">                     App #8: <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ted.android&hl" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #428bca; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Apps for teachers - TED Talks">TED</a></strong></h3>
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Forest is an app helping you stay away from your smartphone and stay focused on your work. Whenever you want to concentrate, you can plant a seed in Forest. In the next 30 minutes, this small seed will gradually grow into a big tree. However, if you cannot resist the temptation and leave this app to check Facebook or play a game, your little cute tree will wither away. Every day you will own a forest filled with trees (or some withered twigs) and every tree represents 30-MINUTES that you have been working hard.</div>
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• A self-motivated and interesting method to help you beat phone addiction</div>
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• Cultivate your personal pattern of time management: make good use of 30-minutes to fully concentrate on your work and finish it effectively</div>
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• Customize your whitelist : Leaving Forest and using apps in whitelist won’t kill your tree.<br />
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*Most amazing Pomodoro App helps you overcome dilly-dally.<br />
*Most effective habit cultivation tool makes you outstanding.<br />
All these will be achieved in a beautiful farm game.<br />
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Pomodora is a simple and fashionable GTD time management tool. Focus is built for this. It helps you overcome dilly-dally, get rid of bad habits and say goodbye to smartphone addition (phubbing), making you focus on your work and study. With it, you will be elite in your company or your school.<br />
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1. Pomodoro Technique Based on Fruit Planting<br />
If you want to put down your smartphone and focus on your work, you could plant a lovely fruit tree in Focus App. In the next 25 minutes, tree will grow slowly and beautifully. In this process, if you succumb to smartphone temptation to play phone games or login social websites, the fruit tree will die. This is based on Pomodoro technique, working in 25 minutes dedicatedly. It is a perfect tool to get rid of dilly-dallies.<br />
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2. Habit Formation<br />
You could set daily good habits. Focus App could help you decide and conduct habits on time. Meanwhile, habit formation has multiplayer mode in which you could organize your ‘allies’ to form the same good habit, punch in and gain credits together. Friends could supervise each other even in long distance.<br />
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3. Combination of Farm Castle Game and Time Management<br />
Both Pomodoro technique and habit formation are achieved in a picturesque farm castle which adds color to your efficient and progressive daily life.<br />
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4. Ranking List Worldwide<br />
Your concentration and your habits will be credited by points. Therefore, your progress and achievement will be competed with buddies worldwide through ranking list. Let friends worldwide encourage together and make progress together.</div>
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   You have never experienced a task manager like this!<br />
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   Simple. Attractive. Useful. 30/30 helps you get stuff done!<br />
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    Multiple lists, syncing over iCloud, and smart time functions are just some of the features!<br />
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With the Any.do web app you can easily sync your tasks from your mobile to your home computer. Our extension is also available for Chrome users and allows a quick shortcut to manage your tasks right from the browser.</div>
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         StayFocusd increases your productivity by limiting the amount of time that you can spend on time-            wasting websites.</div>
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There is no doubt that finding the time to integrate technology is an overwhelming task for anyone. Throughout the course of a day, teachers find themselves pulled in many directions. However, technology is already integrated in nearly everything we do and nearly every job our students will encounter. So how do educators find an ideal balance for learning about and eventually integrating technology? It begins with a focus followed by good instructional design -- but ultimately, a healthy balance.</div>
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Tomorrow's Literacy</h3>
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<a class="external-link" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/10/opinion/brooks-thinking-for-the-future.html?_r=3&" style="color: #1e64b4; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Technology is a literacy that is expected in higher education and in our economy.</a> It is a universal language spoken by the entire world, regardless of the profession. Our current students will encounter one of the toughest job markets in generations. Gone are the days of falling into a profession and riding that wave for 30-plus years. However, it's not to say those jobs aren't still available. They are, but they're dwindling as automation and outsourcing continue to expand.</div>
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<a class="external-link" href="http://chronicle.com/article/A-College-Degree-Sorts-Job/137625/#id=overview" style="color: #1e64b4; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The contemporary job market requires us to adapt, continually learn, and apply various skill sets in many directions.</a> We have to multitask, connect beyond the workday, and collaborate and connect both locally and globally. And while I am promoting that exposure to technology and digital tools is essential, we must do so responsibly. Teaching students how to balance technology usage along with offline socializing and interpersonal skills is essential. But it's irresponsible to proclaim that technology simply distracts, diminishes social skills, and holds lesser value than other content areas. And to do so not only lets our students down, but also negates the mission statements emblazoned on the walls of our schools.</div>
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It's equally important to expose students to information literacy skill sets. As databases grow and information continues to evolve into paperless formats, it is essential to teach students how to question effectively and efficiently. In a world flooded with information to read, libraries have never been more important. Along with digital and information literacy skill sets, it's still vital that we promote and encourage a love of reading across all formats -- along with a facility for questioning, analyzing, discerning and synthesizing with other media.</div>
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Integrating technology doesn't have to consume your life as an educator. In fact, if a little time is spent on, say, Google Drive, teachers can eventually save time and paper, while collaborating more effectively with students. Personally, in my previous classrooms, I didn’t seek to integrate every free web tool that <a class="external-link" href="http://www.freetech4teachers.com/" style="color: #1e64b4; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Richard Byrne</a> posted. However, I simply used his site (and many others) as a resource. I referenced that resource at the beginning of each new semester and made decisions based on what I was teaching. Ultimately I focused on the underlying learning objectives that I wanted, complete with students, and found digital tools to complement or enhance those skills.</div>
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Here are some examples:</div>
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If I wanted to introduce my students to collaborative learning spaces or integrate a scaled-down learning management system (LMS), I would use<a class="external-link" href="https://www.edmodo.com/" style="color: #1e64b4; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Edmodo</a>. I'd research examples of how other teachers were using this tool by simply performing a search for "Edmodo in the classroom." This would present me with a baseline for how other teachers were using this tool. Another option is to ask on Twitter how teachers are leveraging this app in their classrooms.</div>
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Another tool I have used and shared with teachers as a digital portfolio system is <a class="external-link" href="http://www.google.com/sites/overview.html" style="color: #1e64b4; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Google Sites</a>. Again, I recommend performing a search for "Google Sites digital portfolio." What you'll find is a great starting point and a host of examples for how this tool can help you.</div>
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Google Drive</h4>
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I've used <a class="external-link" href="https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2424384?hl=en" style="color: #1e64b4; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Google Drive</a> nearly every year that I've taught. In my opinion, it's one of the best tools to impact the writing process since the red pen. In the classroom, Google Drive can be leveraged in a variety of ways. However, this post is about finding a happy balance between teaching and integrating technology. The last time I used Drive, I created a shared class folder with students before the first day of school. I populated it with dated folders and assignments that all students had access to. Similarly, I had students share a folder with me for homework on their first day. This folder would be their digital dropbox.</div>
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Opportunities, Not Apps</h3>
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The key in all of this is good instructional design along with a consistent vision and culture built by school administration. Find applications that promote and strengthen a variety of skill sets for students, not just one or two. The applications listed above present a myriad of options for teaching and learning far beyond what I shared. However, when you're starting out with tech integration, find a focus. Getting caught up in the never ending, always expanding world of web 2.0 applications and iPad or Android apps will only confuse your students and, inevitably, frustrate you. Also, seek out instructional technology specialists or coaches in your school for help. Understand that it's OK to ask a student -- they know a lot!</div>
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As an administrator, seek to promote a culture of sharing around technology along with a pace that is comfortable for every level of user. Reinforce the idea that learning goals and objectives -- not devices or applications -- still drive classroom engagement. An administrator's biggest mistake is to make technology seem like a mandated item. Also, be sure your staff understands that a classroom technology misstep does not mean a negative evaluation. Rather, see it as a step in the learning process.</div>
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Before we rush to judgment on technology integration as another sweeping phase in education, we should focus on finding a healthy balance for integrating technology in our respective classrooms. Ignore the clutter of overzealous edtech enthusiasts and find your focus to design your own instruction. Ultimately it's not about how many apps we integrate, but about providing our students with the best access and opportunities to contemporary learning resources. As educators, we must prepare our students for their future, not ours.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Recent reports (from <a href="http://chronicle.com/article/Reaching-the-Last-Technology/123659/" style="color: #22b7e8; text-decoration: none;"><em>The Chronicle of Higher Education</em></a> and <a href="http://grunwald.com/pdfs/Educators-Technology-21stCentury-Skills.pdf" style="color: #22b7e8; text-decoration: none;">Walden University [PDF]</a>, for example) point to teachers' continuing difficulties integrating technology into classroom learning. Despite access to technology and despite the fact that novice teachers are entering the classroom with far more advanced technology skills than their counterparts of an earlier age, only 39 percent of teachers report "moderate" or "frequent" use of technology as an instructional tool (Grunwald Associates, 2010).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">This limited use may have multiple causes: Teachers may be overwhelmed by demands of testing; they may not see the value of instructional technologies in their particular content area; they may work in environments where principals do not understand or encourage technology use; and the types of software most helpful in instruction are not always the types of applications students know how—or want—to use.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">But one cause of this difficulty seems to be the types of technology-related professional development teachers receive. Though technology training is one of the most common types of professional development for teachers—with 60 percent of teachers reporting some sort of technology-related professional development in the past year (NEA, 2008)—only 43 percent rate it "useful" or "very useful." Many teachers report that the instruction they receive in technology integration, whether online or face-to-face, is still too focused on learning how to use the software versus integrating it into the teaching and learning process (NEA, 2008).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Teachers do use technology—for administration, personal productivity, and displaying content (via projectors and document cameras)—but not so much as a student learning tool. Why?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">After 25 years of incorporating technology in the learning space, we still may not have figured out how to do technology-related professional development that helps teachers use computers as part of the instructional process. After 25 years of having computers in schools, we still lack an approach that ensures teachers truly understand the benefits and appropriate uses of computers for instruction and that teachers actually use technology as part of teaching and learning.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The approach was used successfully with 150 teachers in five states to help them integrate technology into instruction and assessment. Almost all these teachers were successful in this endeavor—the number of teachers who moved from "low constructivist" to "high constructivist" use tripled after two years (Dimock, et al., 2000).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">In Indonesia, where teachers' and students' technology skills are almost minimal at best, <a href="http://www.edc.org/" style="color: #22b7e8; text-decoration: none;" target="blank">Education Development Center</a> recently concluded two pilot technology-coaching projects in which every teacher (of approximately 280) integrated one computer into his or her classroom instruction as a part of a learner-centered activity. EDC's Indonesian technology coaches did so by utilizing SEDL's 5J approach as their "playbook." Given some of the reports we see about American teachers, more than a decade after its development in the U.S., it just might be worth dusting off and revisiting the 5Js to consider how we might improve technology-based professional development and support for teachers.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Beyond Skills Training: A Theory of Action</span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The overall approach, sequential and cumulative, is grounded in two basic premises. First, if technology is used as a teaching and learning tool, tied to curricular goals and assessment and embedded within strong instructional techniques, it can promote better instruction and greater student collaboration, enhancing student learning. If not, it can't. Second, professional development can promote quality technology integration and learning by <em>minimizing</em> the importance of computers within professional development and concentrating instead on the core areas of teaching: content, curriculum, instruction, assessment, and classroom management.</span><br />
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<li><span style="background-color: orange;">just in time</span>, meaning teacher are provided with skills as and when needed </li>
<li><span style="background-color: orange;">just in case</span> teachers need to plan for contingencies accompanied by a just try it attitude, wherein instructors apply both pressure and support to compel teachers to use what they've learned. </li>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Begin with instructional objectives. What should students know and be able to do?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Select appropriate technologies to support these objectives. What technologies can support these instructional objectives? How will the technology be used (with other learning tools) to do this?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Gauge the effectiveness of technology in student learning. How effective is technology in supporting these learning objectives? This allows teachers to make better planning decisions around technology as an instructional tool.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Make professional development workplace-based. Conduct professional development in the very environment in which the teacher will be expected to use computers-her classroom. This builds confidence that teachers can use a particular piece of software given their own constraints. It removes the "deficit" excuse of "I can't do this in my classroom because..." Equally important, classroom-based professional development keeps technology instructors honest. If teachers can't use technology a certain way given their physical or demographic constraints, technology instructors need to know so they can better support teachers with implementation.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">"Just enough" focuses, not on proficiency with technology, but comfort using technology within a curriculum activity.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">First teachers need only learn a few software skills to help students use the technology. More important is understanding the software's instructional possibilities. As part of the "just enough" approach, teachers are encouraged to find their own solutions to technology issues, through trial and error, seeking help from colleagues, or reading FAQs and help guides. If this fails, only then should the technology instructor intervene and help the teacher. This approach is often unpopular while it's happening. It may take longer, but in the end, teachers report that they feel more confident once they have solved their own problems. And that's what this "J" aims for-confidence.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Next, the principle of "just enough" encompasses hardware access. Teachers often believe more is better, that more technology in a classroom will yield a more learner-centered environment, while having less hardware impedes such an environment. Limited hardware is often cited by teachers as a rationale for not attempting more collaborative approaches. In the U.S., teacher say, "I have four computers and 25 students. How am I supposed to do this?" In Indonesia, teachers say, "I have one computer and 60 students. How am I supposed to do this?"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The "just enough" principles says whatever the in-class ratio of learners to computers is, it must be the same in the professional development sessions. The sessions then focus on activities that emphasize collaboration and sharing of resources.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Teachers cannot and should not be trained in an environment that is richer with technology than what's in their own schools. This strategy demonstrates to teachers that scarcity of resources can actually breed, rather than impede, collaboration, and that innovation does not always depend on resources (Burns & Dimock, 2007).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The third 'J' is a truism in the field of professional development. Professional development should support teachers' learning just in time — when they are ready to both learn and apply what they've learned with students.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The "just-in time" approach has three main corollaries.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Differentiated professional development. Teachers, like students, have different learning needs and preferences. A just-in-time approach attempts to differentiate the instruction and support teachers receive so they can tailor instruction to particular students.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">In-class support. As the teacher plans to pilot her new instructional activity with students, the coach should provide "just-in-time" support-whether it's observation and feedback, support as an assistant, or support as a co-teacher. This "just-in-time" and classroom-based support is most useful before and as the teacher does his activity</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Reduce latency. Latency is often a major issue in professional development. Too much time elapses between teacher learning and implementation of learning. By providing professional development close to the point of classroom implementation, this lag time and loss of learning is reduced.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #585858; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: start;">The Indonesian teachers my organization has worked with have many fears about computers. What if they break down? What if students break them? What if students cannot use or easily learn the software in question, particularly if the teacher also feels uncomfortable with the software? How can the teacher use one computer or two computers with 50 students?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">These concerns reflect larger fears about control that are not unique to teachers in one country or continent. Technology "disrupts" the classroom equilibrium based on teacher control and expertise in all matters. Limited computers mean grouping, making it harder for teachers to control the class in general and unruly students in particular. Inability to help students with software or troubleshoot a technology problem might reveal teachers to be less than omniscient. Teachers everywhere fear that chaos will ensue.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">This fourth 'J' therefore focuses on helping teachers address these control issues by adopting a just-in-case attitude toward computers. This approach focuses on carefully planning the classroom activity. By remembering that computers are just one of many learning tools, teachers can reduce their chances of being caught unaware when computers fail technically or institutionally.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The central tenet of just-in-case thinking is planning.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">By deliberately grouping students with varying technical expertise, teachers can delegate computer training to students, thus shifting some instructional responsibility to students.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">By working with teachers to always have a Plan B, if technology breaks down or the school's one laptop has been double-booked, learning does not grind to a halt.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Technology cannot save a poorly planned learning experience. Often, it just exacerbates the weaknesses. In this just-in-case approach, technology coaches help teachers plan and organize instruction in a more careful, detailed, and comprehensive fashion. By thinking through and planning for all contingencies, teachers will always have a plan just in case technology fails.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #585858; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: start;">Central to change is action, and this is where professional development often breaks down. "Just try it" is the most important 'J' principle of them all. Without application in the classroom, professional development is a waste of time, money, and effort.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Although it's changing, most professional development programs don't monitor or track teacher implementation of the knowledge and skills they've learned. This is particularly true for online professional development.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Thus, this fifth and final 'J' focuses on getting teachers to just try the computers in their classrooms, and making sure they do through pressure, monitoring, and support.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">In the project in Indonesia, teachers knew that after every single professional development session, upon return to their classrooms, they would be expected to apply what they had learned and report the results to colleagues and their coaches.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">We've further guaranteed that they "just try it" three ways:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Instituting co-teaching between the coach and teacher</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Organizing solo teaching where the coach observes and provides feedback to the teacher</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Creating an ongoing practice of "open lessons" where teachers carry out a technology-based activity in front of colleagues.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">When they "just try it," teachers know that mistakes will be made. Errors and failure are a natural part of learning. But when everyone in the school "just tries" technology, teachers can begin to help one another and build collaborative teams.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Four strategies can help to ensure that teachers "just try" technology.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">First, teaching the curriculum, not the technology, is the teacher's main "job" in a classroom, so any technology-related professional development should make sure that technology supports overall lesson objectives (Job-related).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Next, teachers should receive instruction in technology when (not before) they need it and follow-up support to plan their technology-related activity (Just in time).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Third, technology professional development should de-emphasize the importance of teachers' expertise with software and hardware (Just enough) and emphasize teachers' comfort and confidence with computers. Over the years, I've found it helpful to encourage teachers to envision themselves as project managers who set up the activity, with students as "technicians" who delve into the intricacies of the software.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Finally, teachers need to carefully plan for using technology in their classroom, including strategies to address things they think might go wrong (Just in case).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Only when these five 'J's come together in a systematic way might the story of technology-based training have a different ending.</span></div>
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How to Help Teachers Use Technology in the Classroom(The 5J Approach)

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