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IAN JUKES
Title: Our Children are Not the Students Our Schools Were Designed For: Understanding Digital Kids

Description:
Today's world is not the world we grew up in; and today's world is certainly not the world our children will live in. Because of the dramatic changes our world has undergone, today's digital kids are not the students our schools were designed for; and our students are not the students today's teachers were trained to teach.

This keynote examines the effect digital bombardment from constant exposure to digital media has on digital kids in the new digital landscape and considers the profound implications this holds for the future of education. What does the latest neuroscientific and psychological research tell us about the role of intense and frequent experiences on the brain, particularly the young and impressionable brain?

Based on the research, what inferences can we make about kids' digital experiences and how these experiences are re-wiring and re-shaping their cognitive processes? More importantly, what are the implications for teaching, learning and assessment in the new digital landscape?

How can we reconcile these new developments with current instructional practices particularly in a climate of standards and accountability driven by high stakes testing for all? What strategies can we use to appeal to the learning preferences and communication needs of digital learners while at the same time honoring our traditional assumptions and practices related to teaching, learning and assessment?

Participants should prepare to have their assumptions about children and how they learn seriously challenged.

Biography:
Ian Jukes has been a teacher, an administrator, writer, consultant, university instructor and keynote speaker. As the Director of the InfoSavvy Group, 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 10 years, Ian has worked with clients in more than 30 countries and made more than 7,000 presentations typically speaking to between 200,000 and 300,000 people a years. In August 2002 Consulting Magazine Online named him one of the top ten educational speakers in America.

Ian has written six books, 9 educational series and had more than 100 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 17,000 people in 60 countries.

He 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. 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 the 2nd edition of Windows on the Future and a book on Digital Kids and another on Schools of the Future.

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.

JEAN FRANCOIS RISCHARD
Title: The Urgent Need for New Approaches to Global Problem-Solving

Biography:
Jean-François Rischard is a national from Luxembourg, with a US green card, and is married, with three children. He is 57 years old. He has graduate and post-graduate degrees in Economics (University of Aix-Marseille, licence and DES, 1971 and 1973), a Law Doctorate (Luxembourg, 1971), and a Masters in Business Administration (Harvard Business School, 1975, with first and second year honors). He speaks and writes fluent English, French and German. From 1975 to 2005, he worked at the World Bank, and became Vice-President of the institution from 1992 on.

He lives in Paris, after having spent more than 20 years in the United States and especially Washington D.C., where he maintains a home and many links. He has straddled the Atlantic for much of his student and working life, and is well versed in both U.S. and European ways of doing business and corporate governance bents.

He has worked in some 60 developed and developing countries, and maintains – beyond Europe – an extensive network of relationships with government and business leaders throughout North America, Latin America, the Middle-East, Asia, and parts of Africa. He is an avid reader with a broad range of interests in finance, business and markets, world events and trends. He likes skiing and golf.

MECHAI VIRAVAIDYA
Title: Thinking out of the Box for the New Generation

Biography:
Mr. Mechai Viravaidya is the Founder/Chairman of the Population and Community Development Association (PDA), one of Thailand's largest and most successful private, non-profit development organizations. Since 1974, PDA has initiated community-based family planning services, poverty reduction, rural development and environmental programs, as well as HIV / AIDS prevention activities throughout Thailand. Mr. Mechai played a large role in the success of Thailand's national family planning program, which resulted in one of the most rapid fertility declines in the modern era as the rate of annual population growth declined from over 3% in 1974 to 0.8% in 2002, and the average number of children per family fell from seven to under two.

Mr. Mechai was appointed to the Thai Senate in 1987 and again in 1997; each term for three years. Then in 2000, under Thailand’s new constitution, he was elected to serve a six year term. He was appointed as a Minister to the Office of the Prime Minister in 1991 and 1992, when he assisted Prime Minister Anand Panyarachun as the chief architect in establishing a comprehensive national HIV I AIDS prevention policy and program. This initiative is regarded as the most outstanding national effort by any country, and by 2004 Thailand had experienced a 90% reduction in new infections of HIV.

He has also served as Government Spokesman, Deputy Minister of Industry, CEO of the Provincial Waterworks Authority, Chairman of Krung Thai Bank and the Telephone Organization of Thailand. He was appointed as the Ambassador for UNAIDS in 1999.
Mr. Mechai has received numerous awards including 1997 the United Nations Population Award, the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service in 1994, the Paul Hoffman Award and the United Nations Gold Peace Medal in 1981. He has been granted decorations from the Governments of Thailand, Australia and the Federal Republic of Germany. He was a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Institute of International Development in 1988-89, and holds several honorary doctorate degrees from Universities in Thailand and abroad. Mr. Mechai Viravaidya was born on January 17, 1941.

JASMINE ZHAOMIN CHIN
Title: Frog on the Well- An Old Chinese Proverb

Biography:
My name is Chin Zhaomin Jasmine, and I am Singaporean by birth but Chinese by heritage. Because of my nationality and my race, I speak both English and Mandarin, but I hope to learn a European language in the future. I lived in Singapore for the first 16 years of my life, and was very fortunate to have experienced the rich diversity of cultures and traditions. In March 2005, I moved to Beijing, China, where I first ventured into a paradoxical world of oriental tradition and modern internationalism. My stay in China allowed me to explore the roots of my Chinese heritage, while my education at the international school – Western Academy of Beijing – encouraged me to discover the meaning of global citizenship. In order to promote global awareness and social cohesion, both of which are vital in sustaining world development, I undertook projects such as the organisation of International Day for the high school and middle school, in which all students and staff gathered together to celebrate cultural diversity and learnt about the Millennium Development Goals. I have also undertaken projects that would allow me to serve the community via my love for music, such as organising a charity music concert in order to raise funds for Breast Cancer research in Beijing. I endeavour to read Music at Oxford University in the fall of 2007, and I hope to be able to use my knowledge in Music to contribute to the society in future.


JULIA KNIGHT
Topic: Global Citizenship

Biography:
Until she was nine, Julia Knight was a born-and-bred New Yorker, residing first in Manhattan and then in Bronxville, NY. Just before her tenth birthday, she relocated to Singapore, where she has been living since.
A senior at Singapore American School, Julia is chair of the Honor Code Committee, editor of the Prism literary magazine, and participant in several competitive public speaking events. Through SAS, Julia has been involved with community service activities, including teaching basic computer skills to migrant workers, co-chairing a fundraiser for the 2005 Indian/Pakistan earthquake, house-building with Habitat for Humanity in the Philippines, and volunteering with a community center in Soweto, South Africa. When she is not at school, Julia can be found practicing photography, attempting to play the guitar, or frequenting coffeehouses.
Julia will be attending Yale University in the fall.

MAIA USUI
Title: The New Atlantis

Biography:
Maia Usui comes from Japan but has lived in many cites around the world, including Lagos, New York, and Vienna. She is currently a senior and IB Diploma Candidate at the International School Bangkok [but has also attended the United Nations International School, the American School in Japan, and Vienna International School]. Maia is fluent in English, Japanese, German, and French. She serves as Student Council President and has been active in local tsunami relief. Maia is heading to Harvard University in September, where she will study Political Science and Economics. She was ISB's recipient of the EARCOS Global Citizenship Award in 2006.