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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.

functions

Technical:

Management Function:

Intellectual Function:

Social Function:

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

Professional:

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

Personal:

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

motivator and guide of the students.

The primary function is that of orientator,

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’.

designing m-learning for performance support and just-in-time learning is more realistic