Peer Mentoring using iPad Tablets

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the glamour of the machine? international peer mentoring using iPad tablet computers

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the glamour of the machine?

international peer mentoring using iPad tablet computers

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Three broad questions

The iPad Project and this session aim to investigate

• Peer mentoring• Internationalisation of the student experience• Use of tablet computers

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Early premises

• Peer-led support for international students • Collaboration via tablet technologies • Students will be trained to mentor each other

Each has raised challenges

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Peer mentoring model

• Inventing• Planning• Analysing• Deadlining

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Intended outcomes

• generate good practice guidelines on technology-enhanced peer-led support for international students

• an adaptable training programme for teaching students to mentor each other’s academic writing

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Frameworks for analysis

• Self determination theory• Internationalisation of the curriculum• Target STARs– Students– Teachers– Academics in the disciplines– Researchers in Education

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I have engaged with my peer mentoring partner

• To generate ideas• To plan assignments• To share drafts• To finalise submissions

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Identity in the world

• How does “where I am from” impact on my academic practice?

• And, indeed, where am I “from”

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I find the iPad useful for

• Communication (email/social media)• eReadeing (Kindle, PDFs, iBooks, dtc)• Viewing academic multimedia

(videos/podcasts etc)• Note taking in class• Note taking while reading• Drafting essays• Finishing essays

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Challenges

• Training and support v.– SDT– Peer mentoring

• Internationalisation– Direction of support– Social dentity

• Scale– Numbers– Locus

• Technology– Resources– compatibility

• Pragmatics– Recruitment– Ethics– Pairing– Curriculum– Placement– Applications

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Towards understanding

• Areas of interest– Engagement• Partners• Peers• Self determination and autonomy

– Mentoring• Collaboration, co-operation, collusion

– Academic writing• All nuanced by technology

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Threshold concepts

The spaces between … hybrid learning, research & scholarship

• Personal, institutional & corporate technology• Personal & institutional learning• Learning & technology• Writing, genre & tools• Places, people & communities• Professional & academic practice

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THANK [email protected]

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