Why do I need a Teacher when I’ve got Google? 2nd Edition by Ian Gilbert

This book is subtitled “the essential guide to the big issues for every teacher” and that makes clear both its audience and its mission. It addresses its audience of teachers, making clear that they can see themselves as essential in educating the next generations and attempting to clarify their new role in the digital age. It also takes its mission to tackle ALL the big issues seriously; the breadth it addresses is awesome. However its way of speaking to teachers is to include much polemic and exhortation whilst attempting to briefly provide reasons and this leads to feelings of being browbeaten and a shallowness in its detail and reasoning. Reading more than a chapter or two can leave you exhausted. That said, as an attempt to cover all the issues a teacher may need to know about and show where further study may be useful, the book could be very valuable. And it is not designed to sit down and read sequentially, but rather each chapter is designed to stand alone giving useful information on a specific issue.

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