Understanding the role of teachers at the advent of Digital Age

Abstract

The digital age appeals for a transformative change in the learning process. A constructive and thoughtful discourse is needed amongst the academia, researchers and teachers on how to harness the teacher's role to imbibe the core 'vision of teacher' as entailed from centuries commencing from ancient India to the contemporary times. The teacher now does not have to learn how to transmit content but, needs to enrich her skills with an understanding of how students learn, how skills are developed, how knowledge is represented through different media and then processed, and how they use other senses. ft will involve impound efforts on the construction of knowledge as now in the digital the learner does not have one epitome source of knowledge (teacher) but, a set of multiple digital resources to learn from. This aspect has become more significant with the occurrence of COVID-19 pandemic.