EDC672 Mobile Devices in the Instructional Program

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he notion of one device per child is quickly becoming outdated, as students often have two or three devices, such as a smart phone, internet-capable mobile device such as an iPod Touch, and tablet devices.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.

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.

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