Subject: [IFETS-DISCUSSION:3171] Re: One-on-one Mentoring
From: Barry Kort (bkort@musenet.org)
Date: Tue 16 Apr 2002 - 02:39:23 MEST
From: Barry Kort <bkort@musenet.org> Subject: [IFETS-DISCUSSION:3171] Re: One-on-one Mentoring Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 20:39:23 -0400 (EDT)
> Would it be fair to say that one on one mentoring and one on one instruction
> are complementary? By this, I mean that the instructor should serve as both
> teacher and responsive listener?
I suppose they are complementary. Instruction suggests a curriculum
defined by some institution, whereas mentoring suggests that the learner
has more control over what subjects are being explored.
> I am encouraged to see the individualisation of learning through a teaching
> and mentoring role emerge so quickly in our discussion of best practice. It
> would be interesting to consider the role of technology in facilitating this
> sort of mentoring, too. Communication tools, particularly asynchronous ones,
> can be extremely useful for the sort of one on one dialogue required for
> mentoring - both in a distance education and a face to face environment. Of
> course, this assumes that the instructor has the required time available. My
> understanding is that while there is much valuable and exciting work being
> done on intelligent, responsive systems it is still early days as yet.
Notwithstanding the limitations of the Internet, it does facilitate
mentoring relationships between people who are geographically separated.
Subjects which can be handled via text-only dialogue are good candidates
for telementoring at this time.
> We can add individualisation of instruction and mentoring as one principle
> of best practice (which is not to pre-empt further discussion on mentoring).
> What else can we add?
Another good practice is to employ simulations -- especially immersive
simulations -- wherever the technology affords it. These include
professionally authored simulations and modeling environments where the
student crafts some or all of the model, perhaps in collaboration with
peers or mentors.
Barry Kort, Ph.D.
Visiting Scientist
Affective Computing
MIT Media Lab
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