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Why Do I Need a Teacher When I've got Google?: The
Essential Guide to the Big Issues for Every 21st Century Teacher by Ian Gilbert


Routledge 
 Ian
Gilbert
2010 
English
ISBN: 0415468337 
240 pages  
PDF 
12 MB



‘The future of the world is in your hands’
I know that might seem a bit steep considering you’ve got that
Year Ten coursework to sort out and the lesson observation on that nervous looking NQT, but that’s the way it is I’m
afraid. You chose to be a teacher, you mould young minds on a daily basis and those minds have got to grow up and save
the world.’ (Extract from Chapter One)

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 his long-awaited follow up to the
classic Essential Motivation in the Classroom.

Questioning the unquestionable, this book 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 21st 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 21st 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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