Keynote Speakers
Ian Jukes
Director of the InfoSavvy Group
“Creating Learning Environments For 21st Century Kids: Education in the New Digital Landscape”
Because of the emergence of the new digital landscape, "digital natives" process information, interact and communicate in different ways than any previous generation before them. Meanwhile, many of us grew up in a relatively low-tech, stable and predictable world. We are, at best, "digital immigrants" - struggling with the unprecedented speed of change, technological innovation, overwhelming amounts of information and the fundamental uncertainty of today's world.
Ian Jukes examines how digital kids process, interact and communicate in traditional learning environments and with current instructional strategies and assumptions. He presents current findings from the social, psychological and neurosciences as to how effective teaching and learning occurs.
This presentation provides a comprehensive profile of 10 core learning attributes of digital learners and 10 core teaching, learning and assessment strategies that appeal to digital learning preferences. Participants will get a clear understanding of various research-based strategies they need to consider in order to optimize learning for the digital generation.
Ian Jukes is a teacher, an administrator, writer, consultant, university instructor and keynote speaker. He is the director of the InfoSavvy Group, an international consulting group that provides leadership and program development.
Over the past 15 years, Ian worked with clients in more than 40 countries and made more than 7,000 presentations - typically speaking to between 300,000 and 400,000 people a year. Recently Consulting Magazine Online named him one of the top ten educational speakers in America.
He is 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. His two most recent books are Net.Savvy: Building Information Literacy for the Classroom and Windows on the Future.
Ian's rambunctious, irreverent and highly charged presentations and articles emphasize many of the practical issues related to ensuring that change is meaningful. His self-avowed mission in life is to prepare children for the future rather than societies past.
