Metaphors of Educators

Critique Siemens’s “metaphors of educators.” Which of these metaphors best describes the role you believe an instructor should take in a digital classroom or workplace? Is there a better metaphor to reflect your view of the role of instructors?

According to Siemens (2008), the educator is a master artist, educator as network administrator, educator as concierge, educator as curator, and instructivist/constructivist in defining the position of the educator as an informer and evaluator. The classroom teacher may be the observer/evaluator, but so are the other students in the class under the guise of the educator being the master artist. When confined to a classroom, the educator would become the network administrator, but outside the classroom that title belongs to the actual Network Administrator. Educator as concierge - providing information when asked by the students in order to clarify instructions or concepts. Educator as curator - the teacher, if they have been in their profession will be the curator of knowledge for the students imparting the wisdom of times spent training young minds to think for themselves. The educator as instructivist/constructivist, I see in all grade levels, but with differing  amounts of skill needed by the instructer to get the concepts across as the student ages also continuing into adulthood and taking college classes.

Leaving my own metaphor: the educator as a Jack-of-all-trades, Master of none - with the instructor having to turn on the computers, pack and carry the audio-visual equipment to and from the classroom, teaching, being a counselor or confident to some students, an instigator, motivator (coaching), or being a task master or substitute parent.