Ian Jukes has been a teacher, an administrator, writer, consultant, university instructor, and keynote speaker. He is the d irector of the InfoSavvy Group, an international consulting group that provides leadership and program development in many areas, including assessment and evaluation, strategic alignment, professional development, change management, and hardware and software acquisition.
Jukes has written twelve books, nine educational series, and has had more than 100 articles published in various journals. His most recently published books include Teaching the Digital Generation: No More Cookie Cutter High Schools, Windows on the Future, and Net.Savvy: Building Information Literacy for the Classroom.
Jukes is also the publisher and co-editor of the Committed Sardine Blog, which is electronically distributed to more than 90,000 people in over 60 countries. In 2002 he was named one of the top ten educational speakers in America by Consulting Magazine Online.
Jukes has worked for several years with architectural firms to facilitate planning new learning environments and aligning the thinking of the community (school board, administration, parents, students, and community) with the learning and instructional intentions of the school/district. Over the course of the past 20 years he has been involved in the design process for more than 60 new schools.
Jukes 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.
Jukes' session at FETC 2010 was "21st C Learning For 20th C Schools: Understanding the Digital Generation."