Why Do I Need a Teacher When I've got Google? - The essential guide to the big issues for every teacher

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