Mentoring's promise and limits
Mentoring's promise and limits
- December 14, 2016
- Mimi Ito, anthropology, in The Atlantic, Dec. 14, 2016
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Among the organizations studying connected learning are the Digital Media and Learning
Research Hub at the University of California, Irvine campus …. Such peer mentoring
and so-called "affinity networks" are partly a response to the failures of some traditional
mentoring programs, according to Mizuko “Mimi” Ito, a UC Irvine cultural-anthropology
and informatics professor, who is the hub's research director and the co-founder of
Connected Camps.
For the full story, please visit https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/12/why-some-mentors-fail/510467/.
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