Slide 1: Did you know . . .
Slide 2: Sometimes size does matter.
Slide 3: If you’re one in a million in China . . .
Slide 4: There are 1,300 people just like you.
Slide 5: In India, there are 1,100 people just like you.
Slide 6: The 25% of the population in China with the highest IQ’s . . .
Slide 7: Is greater than the total population of North America.
Slide 8: In India, it’s the top 28%.
Slide 9: Translation for teachers: They have more honors kids than we have kids.
Slide 10: Did you know . . .
Slide 11: China will soon become the number one English speaking country in the world.
Slide 12: If you took every single job in the U.S. today and shipped it to China . . .
Slide 13: China would still have a labor surplus.
Slide 14: During the course of this 8 minute presentation . . .
Slide 15: • 60 babies will be born in the U.S. • 244 babies will be born in China. • 351 babies will be born in India.
Slide 16: The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that today’s learner will have 10-14 jobs . . .
Slide 17: By the age of 38.
Slide 18: According to the U.S. Department of Labor . . .
Slide 19: 1 out of 4 workers today is working for a company they have been employed by for less than one year.
Slide 20: More than 1 out of 2 are working for a company they have worked for for less than five years.
Slide 21: According to former Secretary of Education Richard Riley . . .
Slide 22: The top 10 in-demand jobs in 2010 didn’t exist in 2004.
Slide 23: We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist . . .
Slide 24: Using technologies that haven’t been invented . . .
Slide 25: In order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet.
Slide 26: Name this country . . .
Slide 27: • 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
Slide 28: England.
Slide 29: In 1900.
Slide 30: Did you know . . .
Slide 31: The U.S. is in the world in broadband Internet penetration. (Luxembourg just passed us.) th 20
Slide 32: In 2002 alone Nintendo invested more than $140 million in research and development.
Slide 33: The U.S. Federal Government spent less than half as much on Research and Innovation in Education.
Slide 34: 1 out of every 8 couples married in the U.S. last year met online.
Slide 35: There are over 100 million registered users of MySpace. (August 2006)
Slide 36: The average MySpace page is visited 30 times a day.
Slide 37: Did you know . . .
Slide 38: We are living in exponential times.
Slide 39: There are over 2.7 billion searches performed on Google each month.
Slide 40: To whom were these questions addressed B.G.? (Before Google)
Slide 41: The number of text messages sent and received every day exceeds the population of the planet.
Slide 42: There are about 540,000 words in the English language . . .
Slide 43: About 5 times as many as during Shakespeare’s time.
Slide 44: More than 3,000 new books are published . . .
Slide 45: Daily.
Slide 46: It’s estimated that a week’s worth of New York Times . . .
Slide 47: Contains more information than a person was likely to come across in a lifetime in the 18th century.
Slide 48: It’s estimated that 40 exabytes (that’s 4.0 x 1019) of unique new information will be generated worldwide this year.
Slide 49: That’s estimated to be more than in the previous 5,000 years.
Slide 50: The amount of new technical information is doubling every 2 years.
Slide 51: It’s predicted to double every 72 hours by 2010.
Slide 52: Third generation fiber optics has recently been separately tested by NEC and Alcatel . . .
Slide 53: That pushes 10 trillion bits per second down one strand of fiber.
Slide 54: That’s 1,900 CDs or 150 million simultaneous phone calls every second.
Slide 55: It’s currently tripling about every 6 months and is expected to do so for at least the next 20 years.
Slide 56: The fiber is already there, they’re just improving the switches on the ends. Which means the marginal cost of these improvements is effectively $0.
Slide 57: Predictions are that e-paper will be cheaper than real paper.
Slide 58: 47 million laptops were shipped worldwide last year.
Slide 59: The $100 laptop project is expecting to ship between 50 and 100 million laptops a year to children in underdeveloped countries.
Slide 60: Predictions are that by 2013 a supercomputer will be built that exceeds the computation capability of the Human Brain . . .
Slide 61: By 2023, a $1,000 computer will exceed the computation capability of the Human Brain . . .
Slide 62: First grader Abby will be just 23 years old and beginning her (first) career . . .
Slide 63: And while technical predictions further out than about 15 years are hard to do . . .
Slide 64: Predictions are that by 2049 a $1,000 computer will exceed the computational capabilities of the human race.
Slide 65: What does it all mean?
Slide 66: Shift Happens.
Slide 67: Now you know . . .