A Learner is like...

For me, the learner is like a refractor. The learner recieves some knowledge from teacher, and then reflects some different responses.

 

 At this time and age, technologies are changing rapidly and developing forward. As teachers, we should be aware of the influences of modern technology and learning tools sensitively, in order to act as a compass of knowledge for students. It’s a teacher who always leads the non-direction students understand their right purpose and direction of learning and light up their ways of learning. As George Siemens mentioned in the article -- Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age, “The pipe is more important than the content within the pipe. Our ability to learn what we need for tomorrow is more important than what we know today.” And we can also share and learn more teaching experiences from other teachers with technological tools.

Also, George Siemens said in the video the Changing Nature of Knowledge that, “The learners themselves, the connections they form with each other, the connections they form with databases, with other sources of knowledge, is really a primary point of learning”, which means, “The network becomes the learning, the network the learners create.” Because of the changing knowledge and information, students will meet more challenge when they learn with technological tools such as computers. At this time, teachers should be a compass to connect students with learning, and in the meantime, connect different students with matching models and styles. In order to do this, teachers need to understand students capability and characteristics to help them and make right connections.