Why Do I Need a Teacher When I've got Google?

The essential guide to the big issues for every teacher

Ian Gilbert

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• ISBN:
  9781317663997
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

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

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