Does the educator compete with the tools of the digitized world? Or is there a freedom produced that enables the educator to emphasize a more human, individualized approach to learning? And is this fundamentally a new role, or a different emphasis with this New Paradigm?

By increasing the productivity of the educator, “high technology” forums such as the Library of Alexandria Supercourse free the time for the educator to add “high touch” value to his/her students. These forums with an abundance of high quality content empower the educator to stimulate the creative imagination of the students, evolving the role of the educator from:

a)The content provider (Articulating the lecture on the blackboard) to the catalyst for creativity and innovation with ethic (facilitating knowledge associations and people relationships through technology).

b)The authority in a specific knowledge area to the catalyst teaching “web socialization”, finding not only information and knowledge associations, but also human interaction, thus we can now exit our silos building new friendships and gaining new knowledge.

In this new role of “catalyst” the educator leads by example. The educator has now the responsibility to inspire the students to be all they can be, helping the student to manifest his/her potential to the fullest to make a positive contribution to the community. In this role, educators continue to encourage students to reach beyond regurgitating facts, to dialogue about new ideas with educators or peers potentially anywhere and anytime of day or night. The teacher as a catalyst also accelerates the student learning and discovery by opening up opportunistic relations with others in knowledge domains that can help the student. Therefore, the educator-student relationship becomes a bilateral doorway to explicit knowledge and to people with in addition implicit knowledge.

As a catalyst the educator is teaching how to find relevant knowledge, and how to find relationships rather than just exercising our memory. This is going on throughout the world.