E-Teacher = Learning Facilitator+Technologist

The last 7 years that i have spent in the domain of 'Technology Enabled Edfucation' had helped me know the things better and look at the technology integration process from various perspectives. Since i have always believed in the cause of teacher empowerment, I believe the need of the hour is to create more e-teachers. According to me, we in academia need to focus on smoothening the transition from a teacher to an e-teacher. My definition or philosophy of e-teacher is "a teacher who uses 'e(electronic)' components to good advantage in his/her teaching-learning process". I have always believed that for a teacher/ educator to become an e-teacher/e-educator, there is a need to understand about the process of learning to ensure children learn better and secondly, there is a definite need to know about technologies that could facilitate the learning process. So, to start with, an e-teacher should explore as many e-tools as possible and scrutinise/ analyse them from the perspective of a child/ student. After all, teachers/ educators exists to help children/ students reach their potential and that can happen only when proper learning has occured. In this post, I do not intend to delve too deep into strategies that could facilitate effective learning but would like to stress that let all our e's (used for e-teaching) be foucsed on ensuring an effective learning for children/ student.