Why Do I Need a Teacher When I’ve Got Google

A breath of fresh air and hope for the future of learning!
    Ian Gilbert exposes the impossible paradox of meeting the learning needs for the 21st century with the continuation of a factory-model paradigm of schooling from the 19th and 20th centuries. This divergent-thinking book is a must read for all who want real, sustainable and effective reform for learning for this century; it should be embedded in the syllabi of colleges of education and education graduate studies worldwide.
    Dr Earle Warnica, Professor of Education at the American University of Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates
    This book is a stunner. Writing in an entertaining, page turning style, Ian Gilbert engages the reader with some powerful ideas about learning and teaching. He draws on a wealth of reading and research to support his arguments. From looking at the history of damaging notions of intelligence as narrow and fixed, he inspires us to consider the role of the teacher not as the fount of knowledge but as someone who helps children to learn. We can’t do without inspirational teachers, even though we have Google.
    Sara Bubb, Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Education, London
    From economics, to climate change, to technology, [this book] explores the way the world shifts and questions whether the schooling world merely stands still. Spiced with examples to make adults think … and to question their own experience and practice, it is sweetened with suggestions and techniques to bring out the flavour of true learning.
    Above all the book achieves that trick of leaving a nagging doubt about the current world, whilst offering enough optimism to make it worth doing things differently.
    Mick Waters, Professor of Education and President of the Curriculum Foundation
    This book does what it says on the tin: it won’t make you teach better but it will help you be a better teacher. In his inimitable style, laced with humour and wisdom, Ian Gilbert makes neuroscience reachable, digestible and, above all, applicable to classroom practice. By a clever synthesis of the past, present and future, he proposes a new moral purpose for education – to play a central role in the creation of a society in which you would want your own grandchildren to live. It will become compulsory reading. I couldn’t put it down.
    Sir John Jones, Presenter, Writer and Educational Consultant
    If there is one book recommended for all school staffs’ reading lists this year, this has to be the one!
    Dr Lesley P. Stagg, Accreditation Officer for the Council of International Schools

Why Do I Need a Teacher When I ’ ve Got Google?
    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?
    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.
    Ian Gilbert is an educational innovator, award-winning writer, entrepreneur and inspirational speaker, delivering training to schools and colleges in the UK and Europe for the ‘Independent Thinking’ organization, which he founded in 1994.

Why Do I Need a Teacher When I ’ ve Got Google?
    The essential guide to the big issues for every twenty-first