Collaborative learning reflection

In the short clip "Where good ideas come from" by Steven Johnson, he mentions "the Hunch", and how that "hunch" can move slowly. he also mentioned how it isn't until other hunches given from others are combined with your own, do they really start to move into something new. I have had several of these slow hunches in my life, especially when it comes to Art making, and it isn't until I get that other hunch from another source that my mind can really get to moving. I suppose that in many ways that teachers are often time that other source for students. I believe that as teachers we can help students get their "hunches" moving faster by helping them with new ideas and topics. As teachers we help students to not only help students to create their own "hunches" but to help them when they need that other source as well. We create classroom environments where students can bounce ideas off one another, and use tools to strengthen and grow there ideas. In the end I believe that teachers play a very important role in the lives of students, as in the short film depicts those "hunches" as turtles meeting together to create new and improved ideas, we teachers will be right there to feed them with new knowledge, and it is up to them on how to use it.