For me, I think teachers nowadays is like a tour guide.
They lead learners to the area that they are going to learn, provide them the basic information and knowledge. Teachers recently changed they way they teach as before. They do not need to teach everything but to let students experience by their own. Information learning is a significant aspect of our knowledge. Therefore, formal education no longer comprise the majority of our learning. According to Karen Stephenson, " Experience has long been considered the best teacher of knowledge. Since we cannot experience everything, other people's experiences, and hence other people become the surrogate for knowledge. ' I store my knowledge in my friends' is an axiom for collecting knowledge through collecting people.'" As the result, teachers as a tour guide could not only teach knowledge from books but could also share their own experiences of it.
Learners now also learn from the Networks. Teachers, who have more experiences help learners to form the connection between people, groups, and also computer. They help students on the Network learning, From "The Changing Nature Of Knowledge" by Siemens elaborates on Connectivism, he states that "The learners themselves, they connection they form with each other. The connection they form with data bases and other sources of knowledge is really the primary point of learning." So, learners have to learn how to use all the information they get and put them together as their own knowledge. At this time, teachers play a very important role which is to guide.
The learning environment is changing. Teacher teach knowledge from context and students learn is no longer exist. What learning environment that learners have is all connected with computer and network. Teachers is like a tour guide who lead learners to where they are, tell them what that is and help them to understand more. More importantly is to teach them how self- organized which is the capacity to form connections between sources of information, and thereby create useful information patterns.
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A tour guide is a good analogy for a teacher of today because it's the student who do the learning once they are in the "learning places" that the teacher has guided them to.
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