Lee Watanabe Crockett at Leading a Digital School Conference

Lee is President of the Global Digital Citizen Foundation.

Keynote Address 22 August 2015 - Present tense and future perfect

Summary and thank you.

Lee thank you for a fascinating, very humorous and highly polished presentation about the exponential growth of technology and what it means for the future.

As you say: "slightly disturbing"!

What I think is also disturbing is school as an information delivery system competing with many other efficient and smart information delivery systems.

Schools will win this competition only if:

• They innovate
• Allow and foster curiosity
• Are grateful for the past
• Have an eye on the future and above all
• Give themselves the freedom to dream.

Your idea of us dealing with the tyranny of the urgent while focussing on the future as a way forward, is an incredibly big, but important challenge for all of us.