Information About the InfoSavvy Group
The InfoSavvy Group is 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 15 years, The InfoSavvy Group has worked with clients in more than 45 countries. To contact us, click here.
Information About Ian Jukes
Over the course of the past 15 years, Ian has worked with clients in more than 40 countries and made more than 7,000 presentations. He typically speaks to between 300,000 and 400,000 people a years.
Ian has written or co-written six books, 9 educational series and had more than 200 articles published in various journals. Ian is also the publisher of an on-line electronic newsletter, the Committed Sardine Blog, which is electronically distributed to more than 70,000 people in 70 plus countries.
He was 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. His two most recently published books are Net.Savvy: Building Information Literacy for the Classroom, co-authored with Anita Dosaj and Bruce Macdonald; and Windows on the Future, co-authored with Ted McCain. Corwin Press publishes both books. He is currently working on 3 books - a 2nd edition of Windows on the Future; a book on Understanding Digital Kids with Ted and Bruce; and another with the preliminary title of No More Cookie Cutter Schools: Creating Effective Learning Environments for the 21st Century with Ted and Frank Kelly, an architect from Houston, Texas.
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 a range of national, international and local 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.
In past lives, amongst other things Ian was a professional athlete and built and lived aboard two very large sailboats. He has also completed several marathons and stopped a lot of pucks with his body and his face.
Having now relatively come to his senses, he spends as much of his “spare” time as possible away from cell phones and the Internet cruising in the Gulf Islands of British Columbia reading, writing, thinking, listening to loud, lively rock ‘n roll music, kayaking and sleeping aboard his personal sanctuary, a 40’ sailboat named strangely enough “The Committed Sardine.”
