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About the Authors

Lee Watanabe Crockett is an optimist. He believes in a bright future and our ability to build it together through connection and compassion. He is an author, a speaker, a designer, an inspirational thinker, and the creative mind behind some of the most exciting transformations in worldwide education. In life, Lee believes in creating balance in the reality of a digital present and future. As such, he has cultivated skills in aikido, studied the traditional tea ceremony while living in Japan, and studied painting in Italy. He also studies traditional Buddhist music, which he performs on a shakuhachi, a Japanese bamboo flute.

Lee is curious about life and the shared human experience. This curiosity is infectious, as anyone who has heard Lee speak can tell you. Joyful curiosity is the foundation of his approach to creating healthy learning environments for groups around the world.

Lee is coauthor of Mindful Assessment, Understanding the Digital Generation, The Digital Diet, Living on the Future Edge, and the bestseller Literacy Is Not Enough. He works with educators and corporations in several countries, helping them make the shift to regain relevance and establish a culture of excellence.

To learn more about Lee’s work, visit https://globaldigitalcitizen.org or www.leewatanabecrockett.com, or follow @leecrockett on Twitter.

Andrew Churches is a teacher and an information and communication technology enthusiast. He teaches at Kristin School, a school with a mobile computing program that teaches students with personal mobile devices and laptops, on the North Shore of Auckland, New Zealand.

Andrew is also an edublogger, a wiki author, and an innovator. In 2008, Andrew’s wiki, Educational Origami, was nominated for the Edublog Awards’ Best Educational Wiki award. He contributes to several websites and blogs, including Tech & Learning magazine, Spectrum Education magazine, and The Committed Sardine Blog. Andrew believes that to prepare students for the future, we must prepare them for change and teach them to question, think, adapt, and modify.

He is the coauthor of Mindful Assessment, The Digital Diet, Apps for Learning, and the bestseller Literacy Is Not Enough.

To learn more about Andrew’s work, visit https://globaldigitalcitizen.org, or follow @achurches on Twitter.

To book Lee Watanabe Crockett or Andrew Churches for professional development, contact pd@SolutionTree.com.