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So, go on then, why do I need a teacher when I’ve got Google?
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Gilbert, Ian |
| Copyright Year | 2014 |
| Description | Fast forward to the early roots of the current education system and everyone find that the teacher's job is to take the fixed body of knowledge and pass it. The teachers were the educated ones, who had been to university, and whose job it was to drip feed the knowledge back into the community for whom the teacher was pretty much the only source of such knowledge. Google isn't simply a way of accessing information; it is, in Richard Branson's words, 'an invention of change'. According to a 2009 report from the International Telecommunications Union, an agency of the United Nations, more than half the people on the planet pay to use a mobile phone, with the biggest growth in new subscriptions being in Africa. On this continent, in 2001 only 25 million people had mobile phone subscriptions according to a report on the Times Higher Education website, reporting the power these devices can play in higher education.Fast forward to the early roots of the current education system and everyone find that the teacher's job is to take the fixed body of knowledge and pass it. The teachers were the educated ones, who had been to university, and whose job it was to drip feed the knowledge back into the community for whom the teacher was pretty much the only source of such knowledge. Google isn't simply a way of accessing information; it is, in Richard Branson's words, 'an invention of change'. According to a 2009 report from the International Telecommunications Union, an agency of the United Nations, more than half the people on the planet pay to use a mobile phone, with the biggest growth in new subscriptions being in Africa. On this continent, in 2001 only 25 million people had mobile phone subscriptions according to a report on the Times Higher Education website, reporting the power these devices can play in higher education. Book Name: Why Do I Need a Teacher When I've got Google? |
| Related Links | https://content.taylorfrancis.com/books/download?dac=C2012-0-15255-8&isbn=9781315767628&format=googlePreviewPdf |
| Ending Page | 30 |
| Page Count | 5 |
| Starting Page | 26 |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781315767628-5 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2014-06-27 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: Why Do I Need a Teacher When I've got Google? Higher Education Mobile Phone Subscriptions |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
