A Learner is like a Jigsaw Puzzle

A learner is like a jigsaw puzzle remaining to fit together in a state of flux of the digital age. 

Learners try to learn and externalize a piece of their knowledge to the world and put it together with other sources of information through network in much the same way as they put the pieces of a puzzle together. It is because "as human beings we desire or crave the ability to externalize what's in our hands (quoted from The Conflict of Learning Theories with Human Nature)" and "our ability to express ourselves and our knowing increase as we express ourselves and externalize our knowledge(quoted from The Impact of Social Software on Learning)." 

For the sake of this, learners use a diversity of information and technology as tools to take in something new as knowledge basis for tomorrow. They usually use digital technology and social network systems as shown in the following image. 
  

The whole picture will certainly vary depending on the pieces of a puzzle used by learners. Probably, learners eager to design their own learning process and select multimedia learning tools now that they are likely to be never satisfied with what they know today. Rather, they may consider what they need for tomorrow more important as Siemens, G. (2005, January) mentioned in Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age as below: 
   
The starting point of connectivism is the individual. Personal knowledge is comprised of a network, which feeds into organizations and institutions, which in turn feed back into the network, and then continue to provide learning to individual. This cycle of knowledge development (personal to network to organization) allows learners to remain current in their field through the connections they have formed...Our ability to learn what we need for tomorrow is more important than what we know today. 

In the video The Network is the Learning, he also asserts that "what we know today is not as important as our ability to continue to stay current, so if what I know today is going to be changed because the knowledge is changed rapidly, if I am not continually learning I'm obsolete in my particular field or in a particular knowledge space...None really are as effective or adaptive as network. Because network continually evolves and continually reforms itself. So, I talk about the network is the learning I am essentially referring to that's constructed we as individuals make and enable us to continue to stay current and continue to learn."  

In light of his emphasis on network, I also believe that learners should make a ceaseless effort to expose themselves to the networked world and develop their knowledge for the future in stead of being satisfied with the current state of learning until they complete a decent whole picture they want.