New Schools for
The New Millennium
In a world where change is the constant, you just can't believe your
eyes. As a result, the true power of existing technologies can only be
understood as part of the remarkable compression of computational speed
and power that has occurred in the past 50 years through the present to
startling implications for tomorrow.
This presentation traces the amazing continuum of development from the
building based computers of yesterday to the astounding desktop devices
of today. But things don't stop there! It will challenge your fundamental
assumptions about new technology as it projects where things are really
going - from desktop to palmtop to wearable to embedded computing and well
beyond.
It will challenge the audience to consider how this will change the
classroom, the curriculum, learning, instruction and even our definition
of intelligence.
It uses these questions to explore the shift in curriculum and thinking
that will be necessary to equip students for success in the 21st century,
and identifies what this signifies for communities.
Participants will come away from the presentation with a clear understanding
of how to meet both their curricular goals, as well as prepare students
to meet the new realities of the 21st Century.
Attendees should come prepared to have many of their present assumptions
about education challenged.
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Ian Jukes has been a teacher, an administrator,
writer, consultant, university instructor and keynote speaker.
As the Associate Director of the Thornburg Center for Professional
Development in San Carlos, California, he has worked with more than 300
school districts, as well as businesses, community organizations and other
institutions throughout North America. During the last 15 years,
Ian has made in excess of 5000 presentations and typically speaks to more
than 200,000 people yearly.
Ian is also the creator and co-developer of TechWorks, the nationally
acclaimed K-8 technology framework; as well as the catalyst behind the
NetSavvy and InfoSavvy information literacy series. He is also a
Contributing Editor for the Audio Education Journal.
As an educator first, his focus has consistently been on the compelling
need to restructure schools so they are relevant to the current and future
needs of our children. His rambunctious and irreverent presentations emphasize
many of the practical issues related to ensuring that change is meaningful.
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As a registered educational evangelist, his self-avowed mission
in life is to ensure that children are properly prepared for their future
rather than society's past.
Visit Ian's website:
http://www.infosavvy.org/
Mileage, meals and lodging will be provided for District Technology
Coordinators in ARSI eligible districts.
Meals for participants from other state and educational agencies will
be provided; however, mileage and lodging are at their own expense.
For more information, contact
Lynda Cannon, Director
MU Resource Collaborative
1 888 262 3006
lcannon@marshall.edu
Appalachian Rural Systemic Initiative is funded through
a grant from
the National Science Foundation.
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