This meeting is to be held both online and offline (fac-to-face)
ABSTRACT: When COVID19 struck, it threw most educators into what has been referred to as Emergency Response Teaching (ERT). This carried with it the implication that the emergency, and with it, ERT would someday end. An alternate perspective was that the inability to meet students face-to-face (F2F) in a classroom constituted Reduced/Altered Toolset Teaching (RATT). This perspective focused more on what tools remained available to the teacher and prompted teachers to enhance their toolsets to overcome the challenges posed by not being able to meet F2F. As with ERT, this was largely manifested in the adoption of various new tools, chiefly in educational technology. Two years later, the environment has changed with many educators and institutions resuming F2F classes albeit often with restrictions remaining in place for groupwork/pairwork.
In this more relaxed new normal, what of the new tools that were adopted for RATT? Even with the old tools becoming available once again, there remains a place for the new tools, though to get the best from them we need to consider what pedagogical needs are best served by what is at our disposal. In this presentation, we will examine several of these tools, from the textbook to the class website and even the classroom itself, and consider the pedagogical niches where each shines. We will then consider the implications for education in terms of how to use all the tools, the old and the new, to get the best of all
BIO: Adam Jenkins is an educator at the Shizuoka Institute of Science and Technology where he is also the system administrator for the iLearn@SIST e-learning platform. In his role as system administrator, Adam oversees nearly 450 online courses taught by more than 80 professors and delivered to over 1,600 students university-wide.
José Domingo Cruz is a leading member of Online Teaching Japan, and the author of, “Teaching with ZOOM 2”. He is from Canada, and is a veteran university instructor, author, and public speaker, specializing in fluency instruction, authentic materials creation, and online education.
Note: If you are planning to join online as a one-day member, please pay the fee to the following bank account:
Shinsei bank
Account number : 400 1656054 (柳在熙 Jaehhee Ryu)
Branch:本店(Head office)
Account type : 普通(Saving account)
Endorsements:
Matsuyama City; Matsuyama City Board of Education
（後援: 松山市、松山市教育委員会）
