This document discusses an iPad project that aims to investigate peer mentoring, internationalization of education, and the use of tablet computers. Students will be trained to mentor each other using iPads for communication, reading, note-taking, drafting essays, and more. The project intends to generate best practices for technology-enhanced peer support for international students and an adaptable training program. Challenges include support, direction of support, identity, scale, technology resources, ethics, and applications to curriculum. Areas of interest are student engagement, mentoring collaboration, academic writing, and how these are influenced by technology.

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

2. Three broad questions
The iPad Project and this session aim to
investigate
• Peer mentoring
• Internationalisation of the student experience
• Use of tablet computers

3. Early premises
• Peer-led support for international students
• Collaboration via tablet technologies
• Students will be trained to mentor each other
Each has raised challenges

4. Peer mentoring model
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Inventing
Planning
Analysing
Deadlining

5. 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

6. Frameworks for analysis
• Self determination theory
• Internationalisation of the curriculum
• Target STARs
– Students
– Teachers
– Academics in the disciplines
– Researchers in Education

7. I have engaged with my peer
mentoring partner
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To generate ideas
To plan assignments
To share drafts
To finalise submissions

9. Identity in the world
• How does “where I am from” impact on my
academic practice?
• And, indeed, where am I “from”

10. 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

12. Challenges
• Training and support v.
– SDT
– Peer mentoring
• Internationalisation
– Direction of support
– Social dentity
• Scale
– Numbers
– Locus
• Technology
– Resources
– compatibility
• Pragmatics
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Recruitment
Ethics
Pairing
Curriculum
Placement
Applications

13. Towards understanding
• Areas of interest
– Engagement
• Partners
• Peers
• Self determination and autonomy
– Mentoring
• Collaboration, co-operation, collusion
– Academic writing
• All nuanced by technology

14. Threshold concepts
The spaces between … hybrid learning, research &
scholarship
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Personal, institutional & corporate technology
Personal & institutional learning
Learning & technology
Writing, genre & tools
Places, people & communities
Professional & academic practice

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