Ian Jukes

Ian Jukes has been a teacher, an administrator, writer, consultant, university instructor and keynote speaker. As the Director of the InfoSavvy Group, he works extensively with school districts, businesses, community organizations and other institutions to help shape preferred futures. Ian Jukes is the creator and co-developer of TechWorks, the internationally acclaimed K-8 technology framework; together with Anita Dosaj was the catalyst behind the NetSavvy and InfoSavvy information literacy series; and is a Contributing Editor for both the Audio Education Journal and Technology and Learning Magazine. 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. Both are published by Corwin Press.

Ian Jukes is an educator first and foremost. His focus has consistently been on the compelling need to restructure our institutions so they become relevant to the current and future needs of children. His rambunctious, irreverent and high-charged presentations 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 their future rather than society's past. As a result, his perspectives tend to focus on many of the pragmatic issues that provide the essential context for educational restructuring. Fasten you seat belts and strap on your cerebral flak jacket. Participants should come prepared to have many of their assumptions about education challenged.