Ian Jukes, r.e.e.
Ok, this is the one I'm probably most looking forward to - Saturday morning with Ian Jukes, coming up in an hour. I'd heard Pink and read his book; watched the TED video of Sir Ken when one of our parents sent me the link a year or so ago - great stuff. And yes, I'm keenly and exclusively focused on this particular track of the NAIS conference (as opposed, say, to the equally relevant global one.)
"Educator Ian Jukes will engage participants with an interactive presentation and conversation devoted to understanding digital kids. " Perfect. This is hot. We're so far from these kids in experience. I want to understand their world, even though I'll never truly inhabit it. (This stuff, for example, is just playing AT being digital after all - this blog which is really no more than a digital diary.)
But here's the interesting thing, and I should ask Kitty or Amy about this: the description in the NAIS conference program goes on to describe Jukes as a small caps "registered educational evangelist." If you're like me, you're wondering, first of all, who's registering educational evangelists. Secondly, are we talking photo ID, iris scan, what? I guess we'll find out. Tune in later today for a report.
Posted March 1, 2008 7:01 AM