Ian Jukes
"Living on the Future Edge: Thinking About Tomorrow Today"

In a world where change is the constant you can't trust your eyes because what you see today will be replaced tomorrow. You think your eyes are showing you reality, in fact, they are showing you history. The only way to see the reality of a world on the move is to look for global trends. Ian explores these global exponential trends and considers the effect these trends are having (and will have) on our lives both personally and professionally; and considers how they will affect our children, our learning institutions, the nature of teaching and learning, and even our definition of intelligence. Participants should come prepared to have many of their present assumptions about education challenged.

Ian will also be giving two breakout sessions entitled; "Understanding Digital Kids".

Ian Jukes has been a teacher, an administrator, writer, consultant, university instructor and keynote speaker. As the Director of the InfoSavvy Group, an international consulting group that provides leadership and program development in the areas of assessment and evaluation, strategic alignment, curriculum design and publication, professional development, planning, change management, hardware and software acquisition, information services, customized research, media services, and on-line training as well as conference keynotes and workshop presentations. Over the course of the past 10 years, Ian has worked with clients in more than 40 countries and made more than 7,000 presentations typically speaking to between 300,000 and 350,000 people a year. Recently, Consulting Magazine Online named him one of the top ten educational speakers in America.

Ian has written six books, 9 educational series and had more than 100 articles published in various journals. Ian is also the publisher of an on-line electronic newsletter, the Committed Sardine Blog, which is electronically distributed to almost 60,000 people in 60 plus countries.

He is also the creator and co-developer of TechWorks, the internationally successful K-8 technology framework; and was the catalyst of the NetSavvy and InfoSavvy information literacy series; he has been a Contributing Editor for several journals and magazines. His two most recently published books are Net.Savvy: Building Information Literacy for the Classroom, co-authored with Anita Dosaj and Bruce Macdonald, and Windows on the Future, co-authored with Ted McCain. Corwin Press publishes both books. He is currently working on 3 books - a 2nd edition of Windows on the Future, a book on Understanding Digital Kids and another on Designing Schools of the Future.

Ian has also been working for several years with architectural firms to help facilitate planning new learning environments by taking the groups through a visioning process to help them align the thinking of the community (school board, administration, parents, students, community) about what new facilities should look like and how its design should align with the learning and instructional intentions of the school/district.

He also works with organizations and communities that have lost their market or economic base and wish to explore possibilities for preferred economic futures.

But Ian is an educator first and foremost. His focus has consistently been on the compelling need to restructure our educational institutions so that they become relevant to the current and future needs of children. His rambunctious, irreverent, rambunctious and highly charged presentations and articles emphasize many of the practical issues related to ensuring that change is meaningful. As a registered educational evangelist, his self-avowed mission in life is to ensure that children are properly prepared for the future rather than society's past. As a result, his material tends to focus on many of the pragmatic issues that provide the essential context for educational restructuring.