Ross Parker

Deputy Head of School, ICHK Secondary

Ross Parker is Deputy Head of School at International College Hong Kong. He is passionate about making learning a positive, anxiety-free process centered around personal transformation. This requires re-imagining school as a place where adult-adult relationships create a culture of trust, respect and shared purpose.

Ross is the founder of Gibbon, an open-source school platform, and the Free Learning pedagogy, which is the topic of an academic book published by Routledge.

As a public speaker, Ross has presented at schools, companies, conferences and workshops around the world.

Upcoming Presentations

5+1 = ICHK: School-Based Models for Teaching & Learning

Past Presentations

Same Same, But Different

Like everything in our lives, education is changing, and it seems to be doing so at an accelerating rate. Online, flipped, blended, hybrid, personalised, AI, PISA, everyone seems to have an answer of some kind.

What The Tech?

At the turn of the century, digital technology seemed on the verge of realising the Enlightenment dream: escape from the human condition.

Screens That Eat Children

This presentation invites you to rethink the story of digital technology, and to ponder how we came to build a global machine that eats childhood.

10 Oct (Tuesday) - 16:00 - 17:00

Screens That Eat Children

This presentation invites you to rethink the story of digital technology, and to ponder how we came to build a global machine that eats childhood.