Ian Jukes has been a teacher, an administrator, writer, consultant, university instructor and keynote speaker. Ian serves 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, he has worked with clients in more than 40 countries and made more than 8,000 presentations typically speaking to between 300,000 and 350,000 people a year. Ian presented on Thursday, Feb. 11 in the Rockwall-Heath High School Performing Arts Center located at 801 Laurence Drive in Heath, Texas. The event began at 7:00 p.m.
Ian has written twelve books, 9 educational series and had more than 100 articles published in various journals. He is also the publisher of an on-line electronic newsletter, the Committed Sardine Blog, which is electronically distributed to almost 90,000 people in 60 plus countries.
He was 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 most recent book was Teaching the Digital Generation, co-authored with Ted McCain and Frank Kelly. He is currently working on 3 books - a 2nd edition of Windows on the Future, a book on Understanding Digital Kids and a series on Digital Fluency for 21st Century Learners.
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 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.
Ian is well known among Rockwall ISD administrators. In 2004 he presented “Windows on the World: Parts 1, 2, and 3” at the Administrator Retreat. Now he is here to assist with the District’s transformational journey by helping explore where we are and where we are going.