Did You Know

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Did You Know?
Vision Remix
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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 over 1,300 people just like you.
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In India, there are over 1,100 people just like
you.
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The 23 of the population in China with the
highest IQs . . .
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is greater than the total population of the
United States.
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In India, its the top 26.
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Translation for U.S. teachersChina and India
each havemore honors kids than theU.S. has 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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it still would have a labor surplus.
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During the course of this presentation . . .
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• 67 babies will be born in the U.S.
• 274 babies will be born in China.
• 395 babies will be born in India.

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The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that
todays learner will have 10 to 14 jobs . . .
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by age 38.
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According to the U.S. Department of Labor . . .
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1 out of 4 workers today is working for a
company for whom they have been employed less
than 1 year.
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More than 1 out of 2 are working for a company
for whom they have worked less than 5 years.
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According to former Secretary of Education
Richard Riley . . .
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the top 10 jobs that will be in demand 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 yetbeen
invented . . .
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in order to solve problems we dont even know
are problems yet.
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Name this country . . .
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• 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

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Great Britain
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in 1900.
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Did you know?
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The U.S. is 24th in the world in broadband
Internet penetration.(just behind Luxembourg)
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Nintendo invested more than 140 million in
research and developmentin 2002 alone.
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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 propose
d 0 (for the fifth year in a row)
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1 of every 8 couples married in the U.S. in2005
met online.
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There are over 200 million registered users of
MySpace (as of September 2007).
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If MySpace were a country,it would be the 5th
largest in the world (between Indonesia and
Brazil).
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The average MySpace page is visited 30 times a
day.
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Did you know?
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We are living in exponential times.
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There are over 37 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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There are about 540,000 words in the English
language . . .
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about 5 times as many as during Shakespeares
time.
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More than 3,000 new books are published . . .
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daily.
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It is 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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It is estimated that 40 exabytes (4.0 x 1019)
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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The amount of new technical information is
doubling every 2 years.
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Can you cover all this content?
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Nippon Telegraph and Telephone has successfully
tested a fiber optic cable . . .
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that pushes 14 trillion bits per second down
one strand of fiber.
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Thats 2,660 CDs, or 210 million
simultaneousphone calls, every second.
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Predictions are thate-paper will be cheaper
than real paper.(cost per bit of info)
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47 million laptops were shipped worldwide in
2005.
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The 100 laptop project is expecting to ship
between 50 and 100 million laptops a year to
children in underdeveloped countries.
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Predictions are that by 2013 a supercomputer
will be built that exceeds the computation
capability of the human brain.
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By 2023, when first graders will be just 22
years old and beginning their (first) careers .
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it only will take a 1,000 computer to exceed
the computationalcapabilities of thehuman brain.
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And while technical predictions further out
than about 15 years are hard to make . . .
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predictions are that by 2049 a 1,000 computer
will exceed the computational capabilities of
the human race.
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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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The original version of this presentation was
created for a Colorado (USA) high school staff of
150 in August 2006. . .
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To start a conversation about what our students
need to be successful in the 21st century.
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Its now started more than14 million
conversations around the world.
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This email is justone example . . .
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No generation in historyhas ever been
sothoroughly prepared for theindustrial
age. - David Warlick
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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.
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Ask yourself
How are you helping your students build their
ownlearning network?
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We are moving fromdo your own work to work
with othersjust in case to just in time
learninghand it in to publish it - Will
Richardson
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Ask your students
We will be publishing everything.Is this your
best work?
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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
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The illiterate of the 21stcentury will not be
those who cannot read or write, but those who
cannot learn, unlearnand relearn. - Alvin
Toffler
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Ask your school
How are you helping your students become21st
Century literate?
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Being able to see, but havingno vision. - Helen
Keller
There is one thing worse than not being able to
see.
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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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Ask each other
Whats your
vision?
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Join the conversation.
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