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Mentoring is a one-to-one relationship

between an expert and a novice in which the expert guides the novice by behavioural and cognitive modelling, academic and career counselling, emotional and scholarly support, advice, professional networking, and assessment.

Coaching is observing learners' performance and providing encouragement, diagnosis, directions, feedback, motivational prompts, monitoring and regulating learner performance, provoking reflection, and perturbing learners' models.

Facilitating is providing technical, pedagogical, managerial, and social activities that maintain sustained and authentic communication between and among instructors and students.

Technical:

Management Function:

e-teacher who plays the role of mentor, coach (Volman, 2005) and facilitator, (that is the so called 'e-moderator'

Social Function:

In order to perform these teaching functions, teacher training should focus on how to develop a series of abilities and strategies

Professional:

Intellectual Function:

Personal:

advantage of e-training is that it permits the achievement of really autonomous learning, for its convenience in time and space.

The primary function is that of orientator,

motivator and guide of the students.

Improvement of research skills.

rmation online is a skill that is now important in the workplac

improvement of communication.

or students and teachers to communicate effectively.

ocial medi

Relevant, real-life learning.

The promotion of digital citizenship.

tudents have to learn about how to conduct themselves appropriately online.

Engaging your students.

he ability to share learning material.

The potential to appeal to different learning styles.

create a Facebook group dedicated to your class, or set a task to research something across these networks?

Ease of access.

Social networking requires no expensive equipment or modern upgrades

Assisting shy students.

Distractions.

Unless teachers properly supervise their students

The risk of cyberbullying.

imiting face-to-face communicat

The need for schools to research, understand and implement.

Continual social media change.

There are constant changes to platforms themselves and their security settings — of which schools and teachers must keep up to date with and act accordingly.

The need to manage multiple sites and keep updated.

he possibility of malware infections or phishing scams.

The need to filter and plan.

Inappropriate content sharing or exposure.

Controlling device use in class.

Exposing the ‘haves’ and ‘have nots’.

education, letting people from around the world work together, share ideas, and gain exposure.

benefits it will have had on their language development or teaching skills are harder to measure

the monitoring and evaluation design does not appear to include a control group, but rather focuses on English language competency of only the participants at the beginning of the year compared with the end.

The excitement surrounding the variety of m-learning projects is well-deserved, but there is clearly much to learn about how far teaching and learning English using the medium can benefit those in developing countries. As Traxler says, "Brilliant and exemplary work is being done on the ground by people using mobiles to deliver and enhance learning to distant and disadvantaged communities. Our problem is more to do with how badly we try to explain it, think about it, reason about it, learn from it, generalise from it and evaluate it."

It’s really important that you have first the understanding, and then acceptance, from the school, teachers, parents, and the school board, because they need to understand why you’re trying to [implement] this philosophical change in instruction,

he notion of one device per child is quickly becoming outdated, as students often have two or three devices, such as a smart phone, internet-capable mobile device such as an iPod Touch, and tablet devices. This, he said, makes it necessary for schools to examine their wireless infrastructures and ensure that there is enough bandwidth and device management capability to handle the increased demand.

llowing cell phones in classrooms provides the opportunity to discuss proper cell phone etiquette as well as “netiquette.”

We discuss how having a positive online presence is important both for obtaining entrance into schools and receiving jobs. I often have students use their devices to “Google” themselves, and we use the results as a springboard for a discussion into what their online presence or “digital footprint” says about them. It has been a very eye-opening experience for many.

I believe the ideals of ethical behavior and digital citizenship are the driving factors for BYOD.

Our students are immersed in these wireless mediums, and it’s our responsibility as educators to help them learn how to use them responsibly. BYOD provides these real world authentic learning opportunities to almost all of our students.