Did You Know? Vision Remix
Did you know?
Sometimes size does matter.
If youre one in a million in China...
there are over 1,300 people just like you.
In India, there are over 1,100 people just like you.
The 23% of the population in China with the highest IQs...
is greater than the total population of the United States.
In India, its the top 26%.
Translation for U.S. teachers: China and India each have more honors kids than the U.S. has kids.
Did you know?
China will soon become the number one English- speaking country in the world.
If you took every single job in the U.S. today and shipped it to China...
it still would have a labor surplus.
During the course of this presentation...
67 babies will be born in the U.S. 274 babies will be born in China. 395 babies will be born in India.
The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that todays learner will have 10 to 14 jobs...
by age 38.
According to the U.S. Department of Labor...
1 out of 4 workers today is working for a company for whom they have been employed less than 1 year.
More than 1 out of 2 are working for a company for whom they have worked less than 5 years.
According to former Secretary of Education Richard Riley...
the top 10 jobs that will be in demand in 2010 didnt exist in 2004.
We are currently preparing students for jobs that dont yet exist...
using technologies that havent yet been invented...
in order to solve problems we dont even know are problems yet.
Name this country...
Richest in the world Largest military Center of world business and finance Strongest education system World center of innovation and invention Currency the world standard of value Highest standard of living
Great Britain
in 1900.
Did you know?
The U.S. is 24 th in the world in broadband Internet penetration. (just behind Luxembourg)
Nintendo invested more than $140 million in research and development in 2002 alone.
The U.S. federal governments Enhancing Education Through Technology Program Fiscal year '04 = $692 million Fiscal year '05 = $495 million Fiscal year '06 = $272 million Fiscal year '07 = $267 million Fiscal year 08 = ? - administration has proposed $0 (for the fifth year in a row)
1 of every 8 couples married in the U.S. in 2005 met online.
There are over 200 million registered users of MySpace (as of September 2007).
If MySpace were a country, it would be the 5 th largest in the world (between Indonesia and Brazil).
The average MySpace page is visited 30 times a day.
Did you know?
We are living in exponential times.
There are over 37 billion searches performed on Google each month.
To whom were these questions addressed B.G.? (Before Google)
The number of text messages sent and received every day exceeds the population of the planet.
There are about 540,000 words in the English language...
about 5 times as many as during Shakespeares time.
More than 3,000 new books are published...
daily.
It is estimated that a weeks worth of New York Times...
contains more information than a person was likely to come across in a lifetime in the 18th century.
It is estimated that 40 exabytes (4.0 x ) of unique new information will be generated worldwide this year.
Thats estimated to be more than in the previous 5,000 years.
The amount of new technical information is doubling every 2 years.
Can you cover all this content?
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone has successfully tested a fiber optic cable...
that pushes 14 trillion bits per second down one strand of fiber.
Thats 2,660 CDs, or 210 million simultaneous phone calls, every second.
Predictions are that e-paper will be cheaper* than real paper. (*cost per bit of info)
47 million laptops were shipped worldwide in 2005.
The $100 laptop project is expecting to ship between 50 and 100 million laptops a year to children in underdeveloped countries.
Predictions are that by 2013 a supercomputer will be built that exceeds the computation capability of the human brain.
By 2023, when first graders will be just 22 years old and beginning their (first) careers...
it only will take a $1,000 computer to exceed the computational capabilities of the human brain.
And while technical predictions further out than about 15 years are hard to make...
predictions are that by 2049 a $1,000 computer will exceed the computational capabilities of the human race.
What does it all mean?
Shift Happens.
Now you know...
The original version of this presentation was created for a Colorado (USA) high school staff of 150 in August
To start a conversation about what our students need to be successful in the 21 st century.
Its now started more than 14 million conversations around the world.
This is just one example...
No generation in history has ever been so thoroughly prepared for the industrial age. - David Warlick
Students need to know how to find that knowledge, whether its from the teacher down the hall, on a server in Indiana or in a human brain in India. Knowledge resides in the network.
Ask yourself: How are you helping your students build their own learning network?
We are moving from do your own work towork with others just in case tojust in time learning hand it in topublish it - Will Richardson
Ask your students: We will be publishing everything. Is this your best work?
In times of rapid change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. - Eric Hoffer
The illiterate of the 21 st century will not be those who cannot read or write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn. - Alvin Toffler
Ask your school: How are you helping your students become 21 st Century literate?
Being able to see, but having no vision. - Helen Keller There is one thing worse than not being able to see.
We cant solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. - Albert Einstein
Ask each other: vision? Whats your
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