Technology in K-12 Education - Ian Jukes

Held over two days at Australian Technology Park, I found the conference to be a valuable experience, a great opportunity to hear from different speakers, their thoughts on current practice and the future direction of education. My three top speakers included Ian Jukes, Jeff Davis and Stephen Harris.

Ian Jukes is an international speaker and educator. Ian is also the Managing Partner of the 21st Century Fluency Project. 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.

Ian began his address stating we live in exponential times – change = explosions! He spoke of Moore's law, which describes a long-term trend in the history of computing hardware. Basically, as the functionality, capacity and speed of a computer increases the cost of ownership decreases. We have powerful, disruptive change at an extreme rate.

Thought provoking message:

The most powerful piece of technology in the classroom is the teacher – any piece of technology that can replace a teacher, should!

Ian challenged us to think about what era we are preparing our children for?? How you do get a rubber band to stretch and stay stretched??