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Why Do I Need a Teacher When I've got Google?
The essential guide to the big issues for every teacher
- 248 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Why Do I Need a Teacher When I've got Google?
The essential guide to the big issues for every teacher
About this book
Why do I need a teacher when I've got Google? is just one of the challenging, controversial and thought-provoking questions Ian Gilbert poses in this urgent and invigorating book.
Questioning the unquestionable, this fully updated new edition will make you re-consider everything you thought you knew about teaching and learning, such as:
- Are you simply preparing the next generation of unemployed accountants?
- What do you do for the 'sweetcorn kids' who come out of the education system in pretty much the same state as when they went in?
- What's the real point of school?
- Exams – So whose bright idea was that?
- Why 'EQ' is fast becoming the new 'IQ'
- What will your school policy be on brain-enhancing technologies?
- Which is the odd one out between a hamster and a caravan?
With his customary combination of hard-hitting truths, practical classroom ideas and irreverent sense of humour, Ian Gilbert takes the reader on a breathless rollercoaster ride through burning issues of the twenty-first century, considering everything from the threats facing the world and the challenge of the BRIC economies to the link between eugenics and the 11+.
As wide-ranging and exhaustively-researched as it is entertaining and accessible, this book is designed to challenge teachers and inform them – as well as encourage them – as they strive to design a twenty-first century learning experience that really does bring the best out of all young people. After all, the future of the world may just depend on it.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Independent Thinking Ltd
- Introduction
- 1 Save the world
- 2 The future’s coming
- 3 The great educational lie
- 4 So, go on then, why do I need a teacher when I’ve got Google?
- 5 AQA v AQA
- 6 Your EQ will take you further than your IQ
- 7 Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it’s the only idea you’ve got
- 8 It’s the brain, stupid
- 9 Neuromyths debunked!
- 10 Your hands in their brains
- 11 Talk to the hand coz the nucleus accumbens ain’t listening
- 12 Is that an iron bar through your frontal lobes or are you just pleased to see me?
- 13 Don’t make ‘em mad, make ‘em think?
- 14 Teacher’s little helper
- 15 The ‘f-word’
- 16 It might be touchy-feely but it’s still the most important thing you do
- 17 What’s the real point of school?
- 18 An accidental school system
- 19 Exams – so whose bright idea was that!?
- 20 Educated is not enough
- 21 Is yours a teaching school or a learning school?
- 22 Things that get in the way of the learning that are nothing to do with the teaching
- 23 What do you use when you don’t know what to do?
- 24 A short word on thinking about thinking
- 25 Remember to succeed
- 26 How are you smart?
- 27 Muchos pocos hacen un mucho
- 28 Your classroom is not just an environment in which you can show how clever you are
- 29 Teach less, learn more
- 30 Enthusiasm and the sort of 7 per cent rule
- 31 Why do I need a teacher when I own Google?
- 32 Everyone remembers . . .
- Postface
- Bibliography
- Index