Ian Jukes

Today, in a world where change is the constant, you can't trust your eyes. As a result, the implications of global trends can only be understood by seeing them as part of the continuum from where these trends have come from to where they're heading. By carefully examining the significance of seven exponential trends (Moore's Law, Photonics, the Internet, InfoWhelm, Biotechnology, Nanotechnology, and Neuroinformatics) this presentation profoundly challenges your fundamental assumptions about the world we live and the future that awaits us. It explores the impact these trends will have on our lives both personally and professionally and considers how they are and will affect our children, our learning institutions, the nature of teaching and learning, and even our definition of intelligence.

Based on the new book of the same name, this presentation examines the traditional assumptions behind school design (TTWWADI - that's the way we've always done it) and considers why TTWWADI will not work in the New Digital Landscape. It then examines the traditional industrial age high school and assesses its characteristics using a graphics equalizer with 20 measures. The presentation then examines 10 models for high school design that explore varied combinations of instruction, technology, time, architecture and costs.

We all know the future will be greatly impacted by the development of new digital tools. But have we considered what the digital world is doing to the students that enter our classrooms? Participants will come away from the presentation with a clear understanding of various research-based strategies that can be used to optimize learning by the digital generation in the new digital landscape, how to address learning standards and improve test scores, while at the same time, meeting both curricular goals and preparing students with the skills, knowledge and understandings above and beyond content recall necessary to meet the new realities of the 21st Century. Co-developed with Ted McCain.

Today's world is not the world we grew up in; and today's world is certainly not the world our children will live in. Because of the dramatic changes our world has undergone, today's digital kids are not the students our schools were designed for; and our students are not the students today's teachers were trained to teach.

This keynote examines the effect digital bombardment from constant exposure to digital media has on digital kids in the new digital landscape and considers the profound implications this holds for the future of education. What does the latest neuroscientific and psychological research tell us about the role of intense and frequent experiences on the brain, particularly the young and impressionable brain?

This entertaining presentation explains, in very simple terms, why as individuals, so many of us are white knuckle about change. It then outlines five practical strategies that you can use to jump-start the process of getting you and your organization beyond your existing paradigm of life to where you and they need to be. Whether you're inside or outside education, whether you're early on in your career or already counting down to retirement, if you are frustrated with the challenge of facilitating change on a personal or professional level, this session is definitely for you.

Making presentations with electronic tools like PowerPoint and Keynote have gone from being a novelty to a necessity in a few short years. Today, a great many people in a wide range of fields are using these tools to educate, inform, persuade, and sell. However, presenters are often disappointed with the response to their efforts. Unfortunately, there is much more to creating an effective presentation than just learning how to use the software or knowing your subject.

This presentation focuses on the other skills you need to make great presentations. There are lots of people who can teach you how to use presentation software. This workshop will teach you how to communicate your message. The workshop is intensive and hands-off.

Because of digital bombardment and the emergence of the new digital landscape, "digital natives" process information, interact, and communicate in fundamentally different ways than any previous generation before them. Meanwhile, many of us, having grown up in a relatively low-tech, stable, and predictable world, 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. Participants will leave the presentation with a clear understanding of various research-based strategies they need to consider in order to optimize learning for the digital generation in the new digital landscape.

In an education system that emphasizes standards and high-stakes tests, is it realistic or even possible to encourage students to think, explore and develop their own understanding? Learn how schools can develop a research-based constructivist model to encourage students to search for understandings - while at the same time still have student excel at the tests. This presentation focuses on a fundamental shift in the basic paradigm of teaching that is required to prepare digital students for the Communication and Information Age. It provides a pragmatic look at current teacher practices and explains why they are becoming increasingly out of synch with our rapidly changing world. It then asks how we can teach effectively in an age when new technologies cascade onto the new digital landscape at an astonishing rate and identifies the principles and processes that transcend these new technologies.

Participants will come away from the presentation with a clear understanding of how to address learning standards and improve test scores to meet both curricular goals, as well as strategies that will prepare students to meet the new realities of the 21st Century. Included is an overview of the 7-layered curriculum model (content, process, tools, school to career, school to community, school to home, and contiguous assessment),the 5A's as well as a variety of inexpensive and free resources that can be used to to support the transition to this new model. Participants should come prepared to have many of their present assumptions about education challenged. Counseling will be provided. Co-developed with Ted McCain.

It is said that those who live by the crystal ball shall eat crushed glass. Invariably when futurists make predictions we can be certain of two things. First, in many cases it will take longer than we predict for some things to happen. But conversely, when they happen the impact will be far more pervasive than any of us can imagine.

This presentation is about the extreme future 10, 15, 20 or more years out. This is not a crystal ball, Ouija board future, but an educated and informed look ahead at the good, the bad, the ugly, the scary, the beautiful, the terrifying and the sublime.

The great American philosopher Yogi Berra once said, "If you don't know where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else". Twenty years and close to a hundred and twenty billion dollars on, we still seem to be making it up as we go. Large scale spending for technology has had little impact for measurable student results.

This session is designed to help educational leaders and decision-makers wade through the complexities of technology planning. The presentation outlines a simple, yet comprehensive 10-point strategy of alignment that will ensure that technology initiatives are effectively linked and aligned with instructional goals. Participants will come away from this presentation with a clear understanding of how to address state standards, improve test scores, meet their curricular requirements, provide relevant staff development, and provide measurable accountability for expenditures, while at the same time, ensuring that students are effectively prepared with the skills and knowledge they will need to cope with the new realities of the 21st Century.