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According to MENTOR/National Mentoring Partnership 44 million adults in the USA are willing to serve as mentors. {{ref|Mentoring_in_America_2005}} |
According to MENTOR/National Mentoring Partnership 44 million adults in the USA are willing to serve as mentors. {{ref|Mentoring_in_America_2005}} |
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E-mentoring could also be a valuable addition to the curriculum for high school courses in pedagogics. |
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Revision as of 15:11, 21 June 2007
An E-mentoring offer could match children owning OLPCs with adults in developed countries. The contact could have the primary purpose to increase awareness for each other and to stimulate intercultural competence while also training the language skills of pupils. With occasional emails the expenditure of time could be very limited for the participants and wouldn't have to impact on the ability to participate in local mentoring programs; quite to the contrary one could prefer adults with experience in any other kind of mentoring program so as to avoid qualification measures.
According to MENTOR/National Mentoring Partnership 44 million adults in the USA are willing to serve as mentors. [1]
E-mentoring could also be a valuable addition to the curriculum for high school courses in pedagogics.