Ian Jukes

Ian Jukes is a teacher, administrator, writer, consultant, university instructor, and keynote speaker. He is the director of the 21st Century Fluency Project, an international consulting group that provides conference keynotes and workshop presentations, as well as 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 online training.

Jukes is also 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 and is the author of the books Understanding the Digital Generation: Teaching and Learning in the New Digital Landscape, The Digital Diet: Today's Digital Tools in Small Bytes, and Living on the Future Edge: Windows on Tomorrow. He has written 12 books and nine educational series, and had more than 100 articles published in various journals. He 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.

Named one of the top ten educational speakers in America by Consulting Magazine Online, Ian Jukes has worked with clients in more than 40 countries and made more than 9,000 presentations. His rambunctious, irreverent, and highly charged presentations emphasize the need to restructure our educational institutions so that they become relevant to the current and future needs of children. 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.