WELCOME TO THE MIDDLETOWN PUBLIC SCHOOLS

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WELCOMETO THE MIDDLETOWN PUBLIC SCHOOLS
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MIDDLETOWN PUBLIC SCHOOLS

• Staff Orientation
• 2007-2008
• September 4, 2007

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Did You Know . . .
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53 Million American Adults ( 44 ) of Internet
users used the Internet to publish, respond, post
photos, share files and content
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American teenagers today are utilizing the
interactive capabilities of the Internet as they
create and share their own media creations.
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Fully half of all teens and 57 of teens who use
the Internet could be considered Content Creators
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They have created a blog, wiki or webpage, posted
original artwork, photography, stories or videos
online
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8 out of 10 people do not know what a Blog isDo
you ?
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There are over 70 million blogs and counting1,
000,000 (million ) posts each day on the blogs
The blogosphere is over 60 times bigger than it
was 3 years ago.
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China has 17 million blogs

• 35 of all internet users in China have a BLOG..
• The Blog Herald-2006

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9 out of 10 people do not know what a Wiki isDo
you?
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9 out of 10 do not know what a Podcast isDo you?
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6 million American adults have listened to
podcasts
There are 100,000 podcasts and subscribers are
growing _at_ 20 per month
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What the average teen is doing outside of school
on an average day
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6.5 hours with media outside of school 33 of on
the Internet 26 on TV 21 telephone 15 radio
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81 of students have e-mail accounts75 of
students have IM (Instant messenger
accounts)97 of students believe technology use
is very important in education( Netday survey,
2005)
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The fastest growing age group for using the
Internet is.
2 5 year olds ( NetDay News , 2005)
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YouTube serves 100 million videos per day.
served 2.5 billion videos to nearly 20
million unique visitors in June of 2006.Do you
know what YouTube is?
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Did you know . . .
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Sometimes size does matter.
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If youre one in a million in China . . .
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There are 1,300 people just like you.
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In India, there are 1,100 people just like you.
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The 25 of the population in China with the
highest IQs . . .
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Is greater than the total population of North
America.
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In India, its the top 28.
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Translation for teachersThey have more honors
kids than we have kids.
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Did you know . . .
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China will soon become the number one English
speaking country in the world.
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If you took every single job in the U.S. today
and shipped it to China . . .
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China would still have a labor surplus.
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China Mobile is the worlds largest cellular
company.They have over 301 million customers.
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Translation..China has more cell phones than the
U.S. has peopleBusiness Week 2-5-2007
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Your CPA has outsourced doing your taxes to India
to accounting graduates that work for 100 a
month
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Message to AmericansMama dont let your kids
grow up to be accountants.
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During the course of this 8 minute presentation .
. .
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• 60 babies will be born in the U.S.
• 244 babies will be born in China.
• 351 babies will be born in India.

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Did you know . . .
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The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that
todays learner will have 10-14 jobs . . .
By the age of 38
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Where are all the workers?Factory workers in
Ho Chi Minh City make 62 a month
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A teacher in Beijing, China makes 454 a month
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A nurse in Beijing, China makes 260 a month
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41 of companies around the world are having
trouble hiring the people they need
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Help WantedWhere the labor shortage is
highestMexico 82Japan 61U.S.
41Canada 36Europe 31China 19India
9Business Week-April, 2007
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Slowdown-What slowdown?U.S companies make more
and more of their investments overseas.
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Steven R. Appleton CEO of MicronI dont
have to hire one more person in the U.S.I dont
have to invest one more dollar here-and we will
be just fineQuoted to Michelle Thompson in a
April interview on the Global Economy-5-2007
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According to former Secretary of Education
Richard Riley . . .
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The top 10 in-demand jobs in 2010 didnt exist in
2004.
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We are currently preparing students for jobs that
dont yet exist . . .
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Using technologies that havent been invented . .
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In order to solve problems we dont even know are
problems yet.
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Did you know . . .
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The U.S. is 20th in the world in broadband
Internet penetration.(Luxembourg just passed us.)
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Wired For GrowthBusiness Week April
9,2007Europe Blows away the US and Asia in
Network Readiness Index1. Denmark2.
Sweden3. Singapore5. Switzerland6.
Netherlands7. US
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1 out of every 8 couples married in the U.S. last
year met online.
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"In 2010 accessible online data is expected to
approach a Yottabyte, or 1 trillion
terabytes. (yotta- septillions
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) IBM
Unveils Storage Capacity on Demand for Growing
e-businesses Business Wire, October 27, 2000
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There are over 100 million registered users of
MySpace.(December 2006)
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The average MySpace page is visited 30 times a
day.
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MySpace users call up an average of 31.5 billion
unique page views per month----yes 31.5 BILLION
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MySpace page views were up 79 in April 2007

• 41 of the traffic comes from people over 35
• Business Week -2007

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We are living in exponential times.
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There are over 2.7 billion searches performed on
Google each month.
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To whom were these questions addressed
B.G.?(Before Google)
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The number of text messages sent and received
every day exceeds the population of the planet.
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More than 1,442 new books are published
. Daily.
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Its estimated that a weeks worth of New York
Times . . .
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Contains more information than a person was
likely to come across in a lifetime in the 18th
century.
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Its estimated that 1.5 exabytes (thats 1.5 x
1018) of unique new information will be generated
worldwide this year.
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Thats estimated to be more than in the previous
5,000 years.
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Did you know . . .
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The amount of new technical information is
doubling every 2 years.
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That means for a student starting a four-year
technical or college degree . . .
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Half of what they learn in their first year of
study will be outdated by their third year of
study.
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Its predicted to double every 72 hours by 2010.
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Third generation fiber optics has recently been
separately tested by NEC and Alcatel . . .
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That pushes 10 trillion bits per second down one
strand of fiber.
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Thats 150 million simultaneous phone calls every
second.
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Young People Urgently Need New Skills to Succeed
in the Global Economy

• Headline in the news Nov. 6. 2006

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Technology has become an indispensable tool in
the education of todays students. ( Netday
survey, 2005)
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Read/Write Web tools have relevance to state and
local core content curriculum standards. (Will
Richardson, 2006)
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Todays students may not be well suited to the
more linear progression of learning that most
educators employ. ( Mark Prensky)
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Students think differently than us..they develop
hypertext mindsthey leap around..their cognative
structures are parallel not sequential. ( Mark
Prenskey )
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Alan November.We need to emphasized the
necessity of students learning with others around
the world and stress that 3 skills are needed to
teach our children.
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We need to teach our students to deal with
massive amounts of information.
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2. We need to teach our students global
communication, starting with Kindergarten.
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3. We need to teach our students to be
self-directed and understand how to organize more
and more of their own learning.
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We cant avoid learning these tools. We cant
walk away from this-Alan November
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But the question is
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Do our students know how to deal with the massive
amounts of information?
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Have we changed our teaching methods to reflect
new technology?
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Do our students know how to communicate globally?
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Do our students understand how to be
self-directed and how to organize their own
learning?
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The fact is, our young people are woefully under
prepared for the demands of todays workplace,
said Ken Kay, President of the Partnership for
21st Century Skills
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We cant solve problems by using the same kind
of thinking we used when we created them. -
Albert Einstein
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How do we prepare our students to become not
only readers and writers, but editors and
collaborators as well?Will Richardson, 2006
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The people who will collaborate, create large
storehouses of information, learn about ourselves
and our world, change our relationship to
technology, and re-write the paradigms of how
things work will take years to process. The
people who will understand this best are probable
just being born.Dan Gillmor.
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What needs to change about our curriculum when
our students have the ability to reach audiences
far beyond our classroom walls? Will
Richardson, 2006
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There is much reason to believe their
implementation in schools will better prepare
students for a slew of new illiteracies and
competencies in their post-education lives.
(Will Richardson, 2006)
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The past 25 years in technology have been the
warm-up act. What we are now entering is the
MAIN EVENT which is the era in which technology
will truly transform every aspect of business,
government, education and society of life. (
Carly Fiorina, former- CEO of HP)
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What does it all mean?
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Shift Happens.
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Now you know . . .
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MAKE IT HAPPPEN.

• This year in the MIDDLETOWN PUBLIC SCHOOLS!

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Thanks to the following for content, data and
statisticsAlan November David WarlickThomas
FriedmanWill RichardsonIan JukesChris DedeRay
Kurzwell Angus King Milken Conference Dan
Schmidt Karl Fisch for the original Did You
Know Howie DiBlasi
MusicUsed with permission Last of the
Mohicans! The KissElk Hunt All music composed
by Trevor Jones Randy Edelman and
Clannad.. Music by Trevor Jones for the 1992
drama movie. Released 11/13/2001 on the Morgan
Creek label, catalog number 20015
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Have a great school year!!
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Original Sourceat the Milken Conference -
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umably U.S. Department of Labor Report. Also on
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ArticleID11301SubSectionID121 Presumably
U.S. Department of Labor Report. Also on web at
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referencing book Windows on the Future by Ian
Jukes and Ted McCain. Same.Says Richard Riley
was recently quoted in an article. Also on web at
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r.shtml citing A 2004 book, The Jobs Revolution
Changing How America Works  2002 Annual Report
for Nintendo Company, Ltd Corporate Info
Nentendo Company, Ltd. 27 Apr. 2003
ements_5-30-02.pdfFY 2004 Budget for the
United States Government U.S. Department of
Education U.S. Department of Education. 27 Apr.
2003 tmlQuotes Diana Farrell, head of the McKinsey
Global Institutehttp//www.thevirtualhandshake.co
m/blog/2006/06/23/shawn-gold-svp-myspace-marketing
-in-a-networked-culture Updated to 100 million
Fortune Magazine, 9-4-2006 Lots on the web
including http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_lan
guage Lots on the web including
http//www.princetoninfo.com/200405/40512c03.html
 Cites Richard Wurman book Information
AnxietyCites UC Berkeley StudyCites George
GilderSome from George Gilder, some from Ray
Kurzweil, some from ? Dont Know on the
shipping number, the estimate is his .Also
http//www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0134.html?pr
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Sourceand references Web Search on
population.http//weblogg-ed.com/2006/more-musing
s-from-milken/ Former Maine Governor Angus King
presentation - http//web.mac.com/northeastleaders
hip/iWeb/Angus_King/Podcast/A19C541A-7E2C-4BB3-A58
1-63EA068369CE.htmlWeb search on population,
then did the math.Ian Jukes attended session
at NECC, then downloaded http//ianjukes.com/infos
avvy/education/handouts/fgtg.pdf
 http//www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/nlsoy.pdf
among othersIan Jukes attended session at
NECC, then downloaded http//ianjukes.com/infosavv
y/education/handouts/fgtg.pdf  ftp//ftp.bls.gov
/pub/news.release/History/tenure.09212004.newsIan
Jukes attended session at NECC, then
downloaded http//ianjukes.com/infosavvy/education
/handouts/fgtg.pdf  Angus King Presentation -
http//web.mac.com/northeastleadership/iWeb/Angus_
King/Podcast/A19C541A-7E2C-4BB3-A581-63EA068369CE.
html Web Search - http//www.websiteoptimization
.com/bw/0607/ http//davidwarlick.com/2cents/200
6/03/18/too-tired-to-blog/Fortune Magazine
8-7-2006Web Search - http//www.secretlair.com/in
dex.php?/clickableculture/entry/myspace_stats_note
d/ Web search Updated 2.7 billion -
http//searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page21
56461  Notes from NECC.Ian Jukes downloaded
http//ianjukes.com/infosavvy/education/handouts/f
gtg.pdf Ian Jukes NECC, then downloaded
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gtg.pdf  Ian Jukes NECC, then downloaded
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gtg.pdf  Ian Jukes NECC, then downloaded
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gtg.pdf  Ian Jukes NECC, then downloaded
http//ianjukes.com/infosavvy/education/handouts/f
gtg.pdf  Ian Jukes NECC, then downloaded
http//ianjukes.com/infosavvy/education/handouts/f
gtg.pdf  Ian Jukes NECC, then downloaded
http//ianjukes.com/infosavvy/education/handouts/f
gtg.pdf  Nicholas Negroponte Keynote at NECC
(attended and took notes)Ray Kurzweil book - The
Singularity is Near - http//singularity.com/