This online workshop presentation covers a range of current best practices in digital pedagogy, with practical examples drawn from the Blog Journaling, Flipped Learning, Just in Time Teaching, and Project / Challenge Based Learning pedagogical approaches to learning. These approaches will all be demonstrated by examples from the presenter's own classes which show how a range of apps
can be combined in an 'App Smashing' way to enable them to be educationally more than the sum of their parts. However, this session will not just be a typical 'how to use these apps' type workshop. The benefits to students in terms of their improved mind-brain learning as a rationale behind the adoption of these apps will also be covered, as will the motivational benefits for students that appropriately created challenge / project based learning brings. Everything will be demonstrated in an easy to understand way, even for teachers new to educational technology, so the session is suitable for a wide range of educators. After the initial overview and case study demonstration of these theories and apps, the session will then continue with short talks from four of Rab’s students (Arisa Tsuji, Toko Hata, Minori Hirai, and Tomoko Motohashi) from TGUISS, a high school where he teaches part time. They will give a short talk on their experiences about learning in this type of system and how this method easily adapted to the COVID 19 school closures. The workshop will then have a short breakout room time and end with a more traditional
free flowing discussion / Q and A session, although attendees are free to ask pertinent questions throughout the session. So please join us for an interesting educational evening!
