The most prominent role for teachers, professors, and instructors is as mentor and cheerleader. They spark and expand imagination, and bring tools and resources for their students. Technology represents a tremendous expansion of resources and databases. But they do not replace the vital attributes of a teacher. 

Sir,

4-dimensional roles of a teacher are:

1. Teaching, 2. Training, 3. Consultancy, 4. Research

Besides above:

Technologist, Demonstrator, Motivator, Facilitator, Resources provider, Protector, Liasioning officer, Innovative (using pedagogies, and supporting others also), Good communicator, Agent of progressive change etc. etc.

What role you visualize for teacher in view of the onslaught of digital technologies?

I think a teacher should be an open system that integrate with his or her surroundings be it students, peers, research world, society, resources etc. via digital technologies as appropriate as an enabler.  The open system's learning, knowledge sharing & contribution and teaching can be facilitated by the appropriate technologies.

whatsoever technology has come, but still an organized form of learning is we can find with a book or a teacher. A teacher is expected to hold knowledge as water in a reservoir. The only addition is needed to guide students how to use this technology so that s/he should use and not abuse it 

I do believe that technology contributes with an enormous catalog of delivery different experiences of learning. The teachers, we must rethink the way to center the students in this journey instead the professor. As a teachers we must revalue our rol as facilitators instead of being the protagonist in the classroom.

The most prominent role for teachers, professors, and instructors is as mentor and cheerleader. They spark and expand imagination, and bring tools and resources for their students. Technology represents a tremendous expansion of resources and databases. But they do not replace the vital attributes of a teacher. 

I think the existence of technology does not affect the role of the teacher inside the class as much as facilitate his work and gives him more option to do extra work. having the latest technology inside the class won't make a burden over the teacher, but will make an addition that helps the both students and teacher.

S. G.

I think the teacher has to be facilitator and mentor but with much flexibility in adopting student-centered teaching for students who can learn anywhere at anytime. To this end, I have attached a short piece on flexible learning environments and the associated theories, trends, and issues that I hope would be useful in answering your question.

Best regards,

Debra

Data Flexible Learning Environments-Theories-Trends-Issues

Teachers have been facilitators of high quality learning, to a small or large degree. The more teachers are aware of this role, expend their energies in it, the better results they produce, and the more teachers and students enjoy the journey of learning and producing independent learners and lifelong learners. Technologies do provide some good use in the hands of skillful teachers and learners.

Teachers as Facilitators: What Autonomy‐Supportive Teachers Do and Why Their Students Benefit

Johnmarshall Reeve

The Elementary School Journal

Vol. 106, No. 3 (January 2006), pp. 225-236

http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/501484?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

Dear Miranda: I agree. Teachers' main role is to act as a facilitator. He/She needs a) an enabling environment and b) enabling student community ! Another role I visualize is that of a continuous learner !!

Thanks for sharing your perspective

SGD

mentor and facilitator....

As a teacher my main focus remains how to keep participants engaged in the process of learning.  I always prefer chalk and board technology and bring the views of various participants on board so that all can see it. This helps in improving their involvement and engagement in process of learning and problem solving. Simply going with ppt presentations does not help or showing them already done simulation does not help much. DIY "do it yourself" helps. 

The teacher's role is to teach. What is teaching? This includes to mentor, to cheer on and motivate, to advise on difficult patches, on using your expertise to set and conduct assessment, and on adapting the delivery of the teaching content using modern delivery technologies and using older one's as appropriate for the curriculum and societal requirements. More importantly (and I am shocked you do not state this first), teaching is to be a specialist in the disciplinary field (a role that cannot be replaced by technology), a teacher researches and searches for new knowledge from research to update the curriculum (again a role that is sometimes taken up by authors of text books, but not completely), then adapt/recontextualise it to the context, mode of teaching, the type of learners, the time allowances, and other issues to prepare for the teaching. Obviously they deliver the teaching and assessment, and give feedback, in many cases (but this can be done by technology to some extent). In addition, they adapt the teaching to the difficulties and misunderstandings of the individual students/learners (which is also sometimes done by technology, albeit expensive systems). Teachers set standards and content for technology systems. Teachers are the managers that make all this happen, smoothly and at high standard. It is time teachers see the whole picture and value themselves, in order to be valued and paid and coveted by others as we go into the 21st century.

Mostly a facilitator, but should be ready to engage with students as an adviser, coach, and mentor. Exploring the students learning abilities and methods is important in order to enable optimum learning to take place,

I believe that the role of the instructor regarding technology is two things:  one is to be as up to date as possible and open to emerging ideas in technology and analyzing how they can/might provide productive process for the students and second to teach for access--there is simply too much available through technology and anyone using it needs to keep an analytical perspective on information, questioning it and comparing it to arrive at the most honest and helpful material.  I have found that many students simply accept whatever technology throws at them and get dazzled by it  glamour rather than also thinking about it at a deeper level.

Luke brings into the discussion the updating quality of technology, which we utilize tremendously in translational behavioral medicine. The knowledge base is expanding at breakneck speed now, outdating almost every scientific and medical text before the ink has dried. Furthermore, technology levels the playing field whereas scientists and academics from even the poorest nations can complete with those of the prosperous nations. Likewise, students from the poorest nations have access to the same knowledge base at the other nations, and can stay home and raise the standard of living and quality of services in their home country rather than migrating to a more advanced nation. True education knows no boundaries or separateness in humanity; technology becomes the interface for this level of education that can raise everyone everywhere if properly utilized.

The reality that tecnology increases access to higher education cannot be overlooked.  

There is an onslaught of technology on the modern education system. Indeed, technology can open doors, expand minds, and change the world but not going to replace a teacher. In fact, with the influx of technology, there is a greater need for teachers who must be willing to take chances and able to figure out not only how technology works, but also how it works for each student, and where its use is most appropriate.

Educational technology opens doors to focus teaching and learning on meaning through new methodologies and tools, such as: Pedagogy for conceptual thinking; formative assessments with Meaning Equivalence Reusable Learning Objects (MERLO); and Interactive Concept Discovery with Key Word In Context (KWIC) semantic searches of the course Knowledge Repository of all digital material (documents; databases; images; etc.) relevant to the course content, with students developing Individual Indexes with annotations, tagging, and links. Online library searches for these topics/tools/methodologies in published papers and chapters recommended. 

The role of teacher in the digital age is less about content knowledge delivery and more about building student competencies and self-efficacy, facilitating peer instruction and ubiquitous learning, and assessing learning outcomes. There is far more content knowledge in students' mobile devices than in their teacher's head!

That said, people learn from people. I am often surprised when students thank me for explaining something that they could easily have read for themselves, or that they did read but did not understand until they heard it explained.

Technology is facilitating a new style of teacher-student interaction and formative assessment. Instead of pausing in a lecture to ask "any questions?" and waiting for the silence to end, teachers can monitor student learning in real time and tackle misconceptions on the fly. For several years, I have invited students in my large (>350 student) intro astronomy classes to ask questions via SMS texts which I read on my phone or smart glasses. They ask ones that they would never ask by raising their hand! 

Recently, I have used Learning Catalytics for interactive classes, both on site and online. I can address any student by first name and I constantly send questions out for students to respond to by typing, tapping, or drawing on their mobile devices. Most importantly, I see student response statistics in real time and can resend questions for group discussion when in the peer-learning range (cf Eric Mazur). Students are automatically introduced to their neighbors for discussion, breaking the anonymity of large gen ed classes.

Teachers are not going to become redundant any time soon, but lecture halls and lecturing may well go the way of the chalk board—and it's about time! Technology can deliver content but can't train students how to do research, which is the fundamental role of the university. So modern professors must (1) teach students how to do research (which entails doing research themselves) and (2) research how to teach students (which not enough professors do).

https://learningcatalytics.com/pages/stories

https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2014SE/webprogram/Paper237148.html

We live in e-environment and we belong to e-club in which we have e-school, e-library, e-student etc..  therefore, teachers who are older than others should catch-up fast , otherwise , they will fall into the generation gap and will be left behind. I can't imagine a pilot teaching others how to fly  if he does not know how to fly. Teachers have to be up to the expectations of their students. Students expect their teachers to use WebCT , Moodle etc... If students become sick and can't attend a lecture then, they expect their teachers to put the lecture for them on the moodle or they may expect to join the lecture via the e-environment using their mobile. Moreover,  teacher are expected to talk approximately 5 to 10 minutes in each lecture about ethics and the negative side of  plagiarism and misusing technology 

For the independent learning aspect electronic means are indispensable. The Internet and its countless databases are the place to go for research, an updated literature review, or for finding the gaps in the literature. But, of course, it does not eliminate the need for a mentor or teacher. Someone has to teach the students the scientific process, research design, formatting rules, and how to refine research questions and hypotheses.   

A good Question But I think Traditional class rooms have the same value We can enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of teaching and learning methods through technology In higher education teacher should be a good counselor and motivator .Motivate the children who weak in his study enhance their skills and counselling the right direction to their future....... 

Yes, many students are technology savvy, but generally miss the enormous advantage of the deeper databases in favor of the more cursory and commercial forms of information. It really takes a good teacher or professor to help their students learn where to find these databases and the Boolean search words so necessary to take advantage of them. 

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The onslaught of technology has impacted teaching at all levels. As a high school teacher technology has forced me to understand how to harness available technology to deepen students' understanding. Students have access to so much information that a teacher can require their students to dig deeper into the underlying concepts of each subject. This changes our role to include more mentoring and coaching.

Our students can also be a resource for teachers to sharpen their knowledge and press into higher levels of mastery.

Dear,

The teacher must necessarily change role and spend a mere transmitter to a facilitator, a companion that should guide the process of individual learning, arguing their expertise. The learning process should focus on the student, who must find monitoring and evaluation of teachers.

Best,

Xavier

Yes, we are inundated, but have to remember that to learn how to think is mission #1 in education. Merely learning by rote and regurgitating data is not true learning. So, at some point, we have to put the technology aside and learn the steps of calculations, inferences, structure, and rules of doing things by hand. Then, technology becomes a time saver instead of taking the place of learning. 

Let's all remember that content and form are two entirely different propositions! The form will always vary; according to the moods, available technology, cultural and religio-ethnic expectations, etc.: the full force of ego at work!

Underlying all the fizz at the level of form is the one constant, though: the content. If the content is primed to conduce to peace and love, then that will influence everything, set the eructation of form into a particular key, say.

If the underlying premise, however, is to divide and conquer (a la hegemonic aspirations of the USA, etc), then that wrong-mindedness will ultimately thwart the unfolding of happiness and deep inner peace. Awareness of content or intent is key: but that requires deep honesty and authenticity and fearlessness and power -- attributes that are often impossible to align with the ego-based structures this world creates.

I get frustrated that we assume any new technology is the panacea for education. Or that students, simply born into technology are tech-saavy.  They are not necessarily so, and all children must be taught how to think critically - and there is no app for that.  Teachers are inundated with information and new technologies, yet are expected to keep up on their own (they can't).  So I think two things must transpire before we can even begin to answer this question. First, we must consider digital technologies as important and exciting tools and make decisions based on what our educational goals are (as opposed to teaching the technology) and second, we must work on elevating the teaching profession so that teachers are given the time and resources to properly vet ways to use digital technology. There is so much out there written by people without experience in the trenches actually teaching children of all ages, and it misses the mark.  My answer is more politically driven, but the others offered here can  probably give you more specifics. I just think the context right now in the US is working completely against any good answers we can come up with. (See Walter Tonetto's eloquent answer).

I know what you mean, Cynthia. Technology helps breaks down barriers to access, moves work around quickly, and allows independent work, but it does not replace the need for scholarly teaching. Nor does it replace learning. Those are human tasks and best performed by humans. 

Modern technology makes it easy to access information on a given topic/subject. But education is not just the sum total of the information. It is the ability to arrive at a perspective and be able to grasp/look beyond. A teacher can guide and mentor the whole process. Easy access to information could make the process enjoyable for both the teacher and student, I suppose.

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 Nikolaos, it certainly appears you are in the midst of combining virtual technology with teaching, a most commendable effort as higher education crosses national and cultural boundaries all over the world. Keep up the good work! 

Technologies make the difficult tasks very easy.

Hi all,

I recognize that I am late to the discussion. I want to add to what Cynthia said. We talk about the advantages of technology but  I find that my college level students are not that skilled or literate with technology. Yes, they can down load movies, text, tweet and use Google to complete a search, but this is it. They do not know how to use e-mail or how to attach documents. They are not competent in using Word or in how to properly format a file. When they do search in Google, they do not understand the importance of key words in pulling up the desired information or how to evaluate a website. They do not know how to search a database or how to conduct searches not using Google.

But most importantly, they do not know how to critically think about the technology they are using. I find my students are passive consumers of the technology. They accept whatever they see and hear as truth. I have great difficulty getting them to recognize there there is more to this process or how easily they can be manipulated through social media.

I have evaluated several on-line programs in the hopes that maybe having my student work in an on-line environment would help, but I was appalled at the poor quality of the content of the programs I looked at.  I  worked the program as if I was a student - and was horrified at the inaccuracies. It was clear that the designers of the very expensive software did not care about content.

I fear that in our current political environment we are seeing the results of the death of critical thinking. We have politicians using ad hominen attacks instead of making substantive arguments and getting away with it - and as a result people believe it is right.

I am not saying that technology is bad, just that as educators we have been pushing the benefits of technology without stopping to think about what is our role in teaching students how to use the technology. We spend more time setting up research exercises, allowing them to use Google, and not enough time teaching them how to critically analyze the information they get.

I forget who said ( Al Gore?) that "the internet is where bad information can travel around the globe at the speed of light." This is very true.

The important thing is to teach critical thinking skills and a high level of synthesis so that the student can objectively sift through the maze of misinformation found on the Internet. 

I agree totally, Rita. Teachers lift and edify their students, a vital role to inspiring them to reach higher, try harder, and expand horizons. Learning only happens when there is a vessel that needs filled. That requires the human touch. 

There are several good answers and definitions of teaching given above. I agree that critical thinking is critical (pun intended). One giant missing piece I see in the discussion is that teachers need to instill curiosity. The student should be in wonder of the subject or at least the learning process and the teacher is going to be the best source for that amazed wonder about life and learning. The technology mentioned that started this thread has its place but it also has a dark side. The whole life computer using internet generations have about a 10 second attention span but they do not seem to have a need for any deep understanding of anything. I used to say give me the "Readers Digest Version" when I wanted a short answer. Now it is the Wiki version which is a lot shorter, often just an opinion and sometime blatantly wrong. And most importantly never in depth unless you jump through all of the links and read those and their links too. There is not a lot of desire to study something through these days because I can just look it up when I need it. The problem then becomes, all the critical thinking skills in the world are useless without a database of internally held and actually understood information to dip into to critically think about. Critical thinking is not just a skill to add on to education per se, It is the best way to get to understanding of the interactions of the diverse systems and systems of knowledge encountered in life and learning. So first there has to be internalized knowledge then there can be some critical thinking. Without the curiosity to go understand something, everything is superficial and unconnected. Superficial knowledge leads to jumping to incorrect conclusions when put through critical thinking processes because the interrelationships that are needed for critical thinking are not known. It is the old saying from early computer programming; garbage in garbage out. The teacher then must instill the work ethic, the wonder the curiosity along with the knowledge or the learner will be sold very short. 

Pienso que estamos transitando momentos muy importantes de cambio. Cuando era profesora manejaba la tiza en un pizarron negro. Pasaron los tiempos y comence con Power Point. Ahora en clase los alumnos se manejan con su celular leyendo y aportando sus conclusiones de los pdf recibidos con anterioridad a su correo electronico. No puedo imaginarme el futuro. Y ya no lo vere. Pero, creo que las aulas cambiaran a otros espacios interactivos de aprendizaje.

I hope these could be relevant to your question in the field of mathematics learning using technology:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/226336356_A_story-based_dynamic_geometry_approach_to_improve_attitudes_toward_geometry_and_geometric_proof?ev=prf_pub

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262839931_Improving_Attitudes_Towards_Geometric_Proof_Through_a_Suggested_Story-based_Dynamic_Geometry_Approach?ev=prf_pub

Article A story-based dynamic geometry approach to improve attitudes...

Thesis Improving Attitudes Towards Geometric Proof Through a Sugges...

Teachers play so many roles as:

1. Facilitator 

2. Technologist

3. Group leader

4. Adviser

5. Tip giver

5. Cheerleader

...etc 

Very well articulated Prof Younis. Thanks for value addition.

Thank you all

I think these are all great comments, and from my experience I would say the number one role of a teacher is to be a cheerleader. So doing will assure that the lesson material is always fresh, exciting, and relevant to the learner.

La realizacion de guias didacticas para resolver problemas que los estudisntes reciben en sus celulares les permite llegar a clase para iniciar un debate y aclarar dudas junto al docente. Se produce gran interaccion alumno profesor y una mayor expresion de respuesta

colaborativa. Se crea libertad en las expresiones.

Since, even as a young teacher, with the pace of technology surging forward, it is likely the students are one step ahead in at least some of the aspects.  Besides the mentor, encourager, example and leader, the educator now need to think about taking a parallel journey.  This may perhaps require displaying some vulnerabilities, but if honestly taken with both self and student respect, both will end up better educated and able to deal with the sheer size of information that now is at out finger tips.  One the major lessons to to be learned is that (at least at this juncture) the technology is still created by other human beings and the information available always has bias.

teachers are to be discontinued as soon as enough digital self-learning protocols are in place

we will all be autodidacts

tremendous savings, so more money to bankers politicians managers (professions where knowlege was always irrelevant)

This is an interesting question given the changing nature and role of educational practice in an emerging information age. The role of teacher has never been easy to define outside the narrow, didactic model of cookie-cutter knowledge transmission our learning institutions continually struggle to reform and for which technology and global information systems seem to be slowly dispelling of their own volition. Few teachers who manage to survive their fist few years of practice would perceive their roles so simplistically given the numerous professional, social, technical and institutions barriers they'll encounter. 

The academic literature on the benefits of technology as a support for deeper forms of personalized and socialized learning are difficult to dispute but this shift from pencil to pixel has done little to alleviate or lessen the enormous pressure placed on teachers to meet their professional obligations, much less find opportunities to attend to the personal and social needs of their students from day to day. Technology in education is here to stay so the question becomes: What do teachers need to know to harness the incredible potential of technology to not only improve their teaching practice but to support the integration of more dynamic, personalized, experiential forms of learning for their students? 

An article by Tsai & Chai (2012) describe a "third order" barrier to the effective integration of ICT in classrooms as a lack of design thinking by teachers,  an inability to adapt to the changing contexts for the use of technology in any given situation. the capacity to design effective approaches to meeting curriculum requirements with whatever technology is available. Educational technology is no longer defined by a specific hardware platform or suite of software tools and has attained a level of ubiquity and porousness where the technical tools have now become virtually irrelevant while the processes used to integrate these tools for learning are now driving successful ICT integration. I believe design thinking will be an important change in how teacher education programs are developed in decades to come as the need for more personalized, experiential, life-long forms of learning emerge in an increasingly wired world.

Article The "third"-order barrier for technology-integration instruc...

I certainly believe that the rol of teacher is expand possibilities, channels, resources, Right now the teacher is a great designer of experiences for the students. Because the technology without any intention to contribute is nothing. I think the profile of the teacher is evolving very fast, and we have a huge and very attractive challenge to redesign the way and how we teach, based on expand and align different elements that will be part of a formative experience. The technology, the digital mindset, the open resources opens new ways to transform our rol and the results. It is an excellent opportunity, Regards CG

LQE, Learners for Quality Education is relevant to this issue:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sob5O9d1aCA_8UrYfM_rnCG_JWoZuQq19GCRQg_BNvM/edit

Interesting question and very interesting replies. The principle role of the teacher as the EDUCATOR does not change much regardless of changes in technology. The methods should and does change, and successful educators are those who view these changes as opportunities to utilize new tools in this process.

The teacher is a facilitator and cocreator of knowledge in the teaching and learning process. Within the teaching/learning environment,the teacher is self developing in enhancing his/her capacity to use technology as an input in the knowledge cocreation process.While today`s learner is technology savant, this helps the learner play his/her role as cocreator of knowledge in the process while the teacher catches up with self development in aquainting with technology and using it making the teaching and learning process a real life experience. Techology will not replace the role of the eductor in the teaching and learning process.

The teacher is a facilitator and co-creator of knowledge in the teaching and learning process. Within the teaching/learning environment,the teacher is self developing in enhancing his/her capacity to use technology as an input in the knowledge co-creation process.While today`s learner is technology savant, this helps the learner play his/her role as cocreator of knowledge in the process while the teacher catches up with self development in acquainting with technology and using it making the teaching and learning process ae real life experience. Techology will not replace the role of the educator in the teaching and learning process.

The teacher is a facilitator and co-creator of knowledge in the teaching and learning process. Within the teaching/learning environment,the teacher is self developing in enhancing his/her capacity to use technology as an input in the knowledge co-creation process.While today`s learner is technology savant, this helps the learner play his/her role as cocreator of knowledge in the process while the teacher catches up with self development in acquainting with technology and using it making the teaching and learning process ae real life experience. Techology will not replace the role of the educator in the teaching and learning process.

Excellent and artful description, Frida. So often today, the learner is ahead of the teacher in using technology, much to our chagrin (smile).

I agree with Prof Max. Frida has given an excellent perspective of co-producer

 I may add a few premises: 

a) Teacher is also a learner. May be a slow (!) learner compared to a technology savvy student.

b) Teacher and student both are co-producer of knowledge.

c) The responsibility of a teacher is to create and disseminate knowledge. In this technology acts as an enabling platform. Digital pedagogy just helps in accelerating our pace of learning. 

d) In view of this, a teacher has to perform  multiple roles: as a facilitator, as an enabler, as a coach, as an expert on domain area, as a philosopher and as a friend !!!

An interesting debate and discussions surrounding the questions put forward.

I would say that even the teacher is a fast learner and has much more to offer to his/her students - the students may be seen to be smart when infact they are more using a smart device and very often fail to think critically on the subject matter.

It is only last week that I told my management accounting students not to let the smart device take over your intelligence and ability to tap into your innate qualities.

Maybe you would like to take a look at the set of skills that 21st century teachers should develop in order to promote high quality learning. This was the focus of a question posed at ResearchGate in 2012 (https://www.researchgate.net/post/Which_skills_must_21st_century_teachers_have_to_promote_high_quality_learning)

Due to the amount and the quality of the answers offered by the posters, the community felt the need of a summary. Three participants decided to take up this task... the result is the following monograph, published by Springer, where we present the current views, challenges and future needs of educators from RG discussing the 21st century skills needed by students and teachers.

     Education Skills for 21st Century Teachers: 

     Voices From a Global Online Educators’ Forum

     Ian Kennedy, Gloria Latham, Helia Jacinto

Regards,

Helia J.

http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-22608-8

No technology can replace Teachers. Technology is there to improve, enrich, and facilitate the teaching or mode of instruction and the digital devices that are coming down the pipeline are simply one part of a teacher’s toolkit. However, at the onslaught of digital technology, teacher must be willing to take chances and able to figure out not only how technology works, but also how it works for each student, and where its use is most appropriate. Yes, a digital device can provide information, but a teacher can lend a hand, or an ear, and discern what’s necessary for a student to succeed, and to want to succeed.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/teachers-technology_b_4130200.html?section=india

The technology is changing fast. Technology is forcing the teacher to adopt – to keep him in the race & to meet the today’s student requirements. I think a teacher has to be open with the system which can integrate his or her surroundings be it students, peers, research world, society, resources etc, through technologies as an appropriate enabler to deliver to technology exposed students. The open system's learning, knowledge sharing and teaching can be a facilitator with the appropriate technologies - to today’s student base. 

Prem is correct in saying technology is changing so fast that it is everything we can do to keep up with it. In case of working with graphics, statistics, and flowcharts, etc., working with new software is becoming integral to knowing subject matter.  Plus, online education nearly always involves in-house mail systems that are at once official records of correspondence and confidential flow of information between student and teacher. This involves an evolving understanding of how these communications may be reviewed in case of disputes over instructions and intraclass communication.  

The main aim of a teacher is to inspire students & make complicated concepts simple to understand & analyze . The teacher makes the student creative & guides him to do research . Technology is the tool by which the student gains & shares information , but cannot replace the teacher in the early stages of his life . The teacher guides the student to control technology for the benefit of his creativity, but technology should not overwhelm the student & teacher . Ethical values in science & emotional intelligence can be dealt only by a teacher . Schools , colleges & universities exist only for teacher -students interaction utilizing technology & students prefer the best ' teaching Institutes '  

I'll never forget a University of North Texas math professor that helped me with inferential statistics during my first doctorate many years ago--it was a time that we began using electronic calculators for many of our computations, and even the professors were having difficulty doing various equations by hand. He went over each equation step by step over, say, 12 pages handwritten, and provided templates that allowed me memorize the procedures for calculations until could do them quickly and accrurately. If I had simply learned them by using the calculator it would have crippled me for real world inferential statistics. With all the new, wonderful statistical software available today we as professors are in danger of crippling future scientists if we don't back up and make sure they can calculate by hand first. Whether we are teaching research design, inferential statistics, or chairing a doctoral dissertation study, we need to be prepared with tutorial lessons we can share with our students to help shore up that which they might have glossed over because of too much technology and not enough manual calculations in their background. Nothing supplants true learning, critical thinking, reasoning, and intellectual power. That's technology that still requires the human touch.  

Very aptly said, Prof Max. Thanks for sharing your experience in Inferential Statistics. Today there is unnecessary competition between Technology  and Teacher, in which Technology seems to be leading . !

Technology and Teacher must complement each other and try to make teaching learning process an enjoyable and insightful journey.

Dear Dr Singh Shivakumar ,

Thanks for sharing your perspective. A teacher is an inspiration for students. .

What Is Inspiration?:That moment when mind and spirit take flight stands apart from normal life. Teacher make this moment memorable and enhance the quality of learning together. Technology is an aid or tool to make this moment memorable.

No doubt, the conventional teaching-learning platform has transformed drastically in recent years because of rapid digitalisation of all the resources.  At the same time,  need of the hard core teachers and mentors has emerged out at the scale than never before. This need is not for what they can read from digital resources but for making them aware of what is mantra that lies between these lines. Demonstrating them the ultimate cause of being educated.... at the background of larger perspective of humanity in its totality........   physical interaction always will be in demand.... for generations to come.... whatever should be the onslaught of technology.... human is only the solution for healing the human....for culturing the humanity........ for civilised society... if not better... at least to preserve what has been achieved so far. 

Depending on your field of teaching, the field of health and medicine require teachers to continually read at least the abstracts of research of most of the studies that come out in the topic areas they teach. Without IT this would be impossible, because of the current breakneck pace of publishing new research. Not doing so will put the teacher behind the learner in keeping abreast of changes in the field. 

 Your slide entitled "Multiple Roles of Future Teachers" (29) is quite comprehensive. As long as a teacher is able to accomplish all of those necessities they will be more effective in their role. A teacher who commits to being a lifetime learner is much more capable of fulfilling the many different and changing roles that will be required 

Multiple Roles of future teachers? Well how might we as researchers and teacher educators conceive of what it means to be a teacher? To respond to that question we might think in at least two paths: 1st Construct a professional description of what a teacher does; How does the role of teacher respond to 3 big questions of curriculum and instruction--What do we teach [content]? How do we teach[methods]? How do we ascertain as it were whether teaching succeeds [assessment]? All three should be accomplished in balance.

2nd I like to think that teaching in multiple roles requires persona or wholehearted  commitment from teachers So an attitude or teacher education that discusses Reflective Teaching is advisable. All teacher candidates come more or less with a framework of thinking about being a teacher. Zeichner And Grant outline methods and coursework for developing methods for reflective teaching. I also do this in my work.

In my view the Teacher of tomorrow (and today!) will have to use technology to facilitate collaborative and peer learning across borders.

Teaching. Mainly for higher order skills and deeper learning :) 

I think teachers would be writing more to teach and students will be reading more to learn given the rapid advancement in digital technologies that allows for learning outside of the physical classroom.

Best regards,

Debra

People  used to say  we  are  proud  that  We  belong to the    C  Club,   i.e.  having  CAP,  CFA   etc....

Today  more and  more people  are  proud  to  say  we  belong  to  the  e-Club .  Today  people  belong to the e-environment  and  we  have  e-journal, e-library,  e-Student  etc...  that is  why  we had to have the e-teacher.  There is no  place  anymore for the generation gap. Even the  old teachers have to become e-teachers  in this e-environment.

The roles of teachers can not be taken over by technology.emergence of new technology in education has not come to replace activities performed by teachers.Technology will not function in the classroom without being manipulate by someone.teachers does not only teach but explain .illustrate,gives examples demonstrate and guide learners towards thinking in finding solution to a problems.

The role of teachers in this technological era is more demanding and challenging. they need to master their subject matter, the pedagogy and technology and their combination. Then they be able to guide, mentor and make students to have 21 century skills.

then able to use performance assessment not written test only.

the teacher here has to be a mentor and a guidance for his/her students.

The views shared are very important. I think the personal touch by teacher during the interaction with students is very important. This cannot be achieved by technology. Teacher is still considered as role model

Redefining the Role of Teachers in the Digital Era

In this digital era, teachers’ role has shifted from mere preacher to the manager of students social and emotions behaviours; mentor for their learning and over-all development as a balanced citizen; motivator for slow learner and a fast learner in digital environment. He has to keep watch on the time spent by learners for their proper time management which make certain that the learner utilize optimum e-recourse. He has to address social and emotional issues that affect learners’ learning, and be ready to make changes when their learning stalls.

http://oaji.net/articles/2016/1170-1463510528.pdf