A Learner is Like a Bumble Bee

'Buzz, buzz...' A bumblebee may make this sound when swooshing by your ear. These cute bees make me think some resemblance with learners today.

Bumblebees are connected with each other and collaborative. According to Connectivism:

A Learning Theory for the Digital Age by George Siemens, 'The pipe is more important than the content within the pipe.' The bumblebees are creatures that are highly connected with each other and so do learners in digital age. The learners today are helping each other and help each other find interesting fragrance knowledge. Although the connection of bumblebees seems chaotic, but there is an underlying order within the bee society. Like the author says, there is 'a cryptic form of order'. So are the learners have in today's digital era. 

In the video The Conflict of Learning Theories with Human Nature, Mr. Siemens mentions that Behaviorism and other learning theories are somewhat at odds with what we hope learning process would be. 'Our need to externalize is so great that we can't have meaningful private dialogue... we need to externalize our thought for us to connect with other individuals.' We hope that learning should be externalize but these theories, like Behaviorism, considers our mind as a black box and unpenetrable. Like bumblebees, the learning process is both an individual process and a collaborative process. These two aspects are connected with each other and nowadays in digital era also works. 

In conclusion, learners today are like bumblebees, seems separated but organized in a crytic yet understandable manner.