Why do I need a teacher when I've got google: the essential guide to the big issues for every teacher /
by Lan Gilbert
- 2nd
- Oxon: Routledge, 2014.
- xiv, 247 p.
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.
"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"