Why do I need a teacher when I've got Google? : the essential guide to the big issues for every teacher
Gilbert, Ian, 1965-2014
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"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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Edition:
Second edition.
Imprint:
Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon New York Routledge, 2014.
Collation:
xiv, 247 pages ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Previous edition: 2011.Formerly CIP. UkIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 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? --Contents note continued: 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.
ISBN:
9780415709590 (paperback)9780415709583 (hardback)9781315767628 (ebook)
Dewey class:
371.102
Language:
English
BRN:
289806