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

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

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Do you want to Learn how to use Google Classroom and Engage your Students with it? This book is written for every teacher who wants to amplify teaching and learning in the classroom using powerful online tools that put learning first! Google Classroom helps teachers bring their work online. It explains what Google Classroom is, what it can do, how to set it up, and how to use it to enhance student learning while making your life as a teacher easier. It shows you how to place resources and activities online, gather assignments, and develop group and individual activities. Finishing up with some of the best tips of how to use Classroom. With all the options for educational platforms available to use, Google Classroom is leading the pack with easy apps that many already enjoy and all the available features that you can use for free. In this book you will learn: Benefits Of Google Classroom Difference Between Google Classroom And Others Platforms Getting Started with Google Classroom How to allow Teachers to Communicate with Students effectively How to make Assignments, Announcements, Gradings, and enable students to communicate with each other How to collect Work and Files, to have all students on the same page, using Google dedicated tools Why going Paperless will help you as a Teacher Why Google Classroom is a Huge Time Saver Best Tips & Trick Check out this guidebook before getting started and learn just how amazing this platform can be.

Ian Gilbert takes the reader on a rollercoaster ride through the theories of teaching. On the way the author highlights seven key factors that affect motivation and offers a range of strategies to help teachers implement and use them at the chalk face.

Do you want to learn how to use the Google Classroom App? Do you want to discover how to set a digital classroom up or learn practical teaching approaches to increase student engagement? Google describes Google School as "The school mission control," and that could be the best way to think about it. Simply put, it's a forum for teachers and students to connect Google's G Suite resources. This also serves as a multimedia organizer where teachers can hold and exchange class materials with students-all of them paperless. In there, you can select which features you wish to implement. Documents are stored on Google Drive and editable for applications such as Google Docs, Tickets, etc. But, what distinguishes Google Classroom from the standard Google Drive experience is the interface between teacher and student, developed by Google for the way teachers and students think and work. Google Classroom is a free Google created program. The platform helps communicate with teachers and students and can be used to coordinate and manage to learn. Google Classroom is considered an essential paperless teaching aid to help teachers and students collaborate. The software also allows teachers to teach from a distance and can provide much-needed support in the current environment. Teachers are going to be able to monitor each student's progress and return work after it has been graded. The teacher can comment on homework so that the students know what they did wrong and what they can improve. Teachers are also going to be able to create class announcements which students will have the ability to comment on. This book covers: The Modern Teacher Pills of Mindset Benefits of Google Classroom Difference Between Google Classroom And Others Platforms Getting Started with Google Classroom How to Use Google Classroom? Useful Apps for Google Classroom Student Approach Ideas Tips And Tricks To Get The Most Out of Google Classroom FAQS About Google Classroom And Much More! Google Classroom is a free program for teachers and learners to collaborate. Teachers can create classes online, invite students to attend the class, and create and hand out assignments. Inside the forum, learners and teachers can interact with the assignments, and teachers can track the progress of students. To use this solution, schools can create a free Google Apps for Education account. Google Classroom offers teachers and students special features that are not part of traditional Google Accounts. For example, teachers may use the Formulas tool to add images and answers to questions with multiple choices. The Gmail Inbox app houses Classroom texts, allowing students and teachers to find highlights and main information with ease. By adding subjects to posts, teachers can coordinate their class streams, and students and teachers can search the streams to find different subjects. Google Classroom is perfect for parents too. Teachers can exchange student success summaries with their parents, and the latter can get automatic email summaries of class updates and student assignments. Get your copy now!

In this touching and often humorous memoir, machinist, journalist, corporate writer, public relations hack, and author Steven E. Wedel talks about how he became a high school teacher and what those 12 years in public education meant to him. From beginning his teaching career as a 40-year-old long-haired guy with an alternative certification to teaching Advanced Placement, Wedel tells it all, including how he decorated his room as a heavy metal horror show to battles with principals, lesson plans that worked, or didn't, and going viral with his "Open Letter to Parents and Lawmakers." Through it all, his love for his students is evident.