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Why do I need a teacher when I've got Google? : the essential guide to the big issues for every twenty-first century teacher / Ian Gilbert.

By: Publication details: Abingdon, Oxon [England] ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2011.Description: x, 220 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780415468312
  • 0415468310
  • 9780415468336
  • 0415468337
  • 9780203846087
  • 0203846087
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • LB 1025.3 .G443 2011
Contents:
Introduction -- Save the world -- The future's coming -- The great educational lie -- So, go on then, why do I need a teacher when I've got Google? -- AQA v AQA -- Your EQ will take you further than your IQ -- Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it's the only idea you've got -- It's the brain, stupid -- Neuromyths debunked! -- Your hands in their brains -- Talk to the hand coz the nucleus accumbens ain't listening -- Is that an iron bar through your frontal lobes or are you just pleased to see me? -- Don't make 'em mad, make 'em think? -- Teacher's little helper -- The 'f-word' -- It might be touchy-feely but it's still the most important thing you do -- What's the real point of school -- An accidental school system -- Exams--so whose bright idea was that!? -- Educated is not enough -- Is yours a teaching school or a learning school? -- Things that get in the way of the learning that are nothing to do with the teaching -- What do you use when you don't know what to do? -- A short word on thinking about thinking -- Remember to succeed -- How are you smart? -- Muchos pocos hacen un mucho -- Your classroom is not just an environment in which you can show how clever you are -- Teach less, learn more -- Enthusiasm and the sort of 7 per cent rule -- Everyone remembers ... -- Postface.
Summary: "This book is designed to challenge, inform and encourage teachers as they strive to design a 21st century learning experience that really does bring the best out of all young people."--Back cover

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-210) and index.

Introduction -- Save the world -- The future's coming -- The great educational lie -- So, go on then, why do I need a teacher when I've got Google? -- AQA v AQA -- Your EQ will take you further than your IQ -- Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it's the only idea you've got -- It's the brain, stupid -- Neuromyths debunked! -- Your hands in their brains -- Talk to the hand coz the nucleus accumbens ain't listening -- Is that an iron bar through your frontal lobes or are you just pleased to see me? -- Don't make 'em mad, make 'em think? -- Teacher's little helper -- The 'f-word' -- It might be touchy-feely but it's still the most important thing you do -- What's the real point of school -- An accidental school system -- Exams--so whose bright idea was that!? -- Educated is not enough -- Is yours a teaching school or a learning school? -- Things that get in the way of the learning that are nothing to do with the teaching -- What do you use when you don't know what to do? -- A short word on thinking about thinking -- Remember to succeed -- How are you smart? -- Muchos pocos hacen un mucho -- Your classroom is not just an environment in which you can show how clever you are -- Teach less, learn more -- Enthusiasm and the sort of 7 per cent rule -- Everyone remembers ... -- Postface.

"This book is designed to challenge, inform and encourage teachers as they strive to design a 21st century learning experience that really does bring the best out of all young people."--Back cover

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