Did you know?

Sometimes size does matter.

If you're one in a million in China.....

there are 1,300 people just like you

In India, there are 1,100 people just like you.

The 25% of the population in China with the hightest IQs....

is greater than the total population in North America.

In India, It's the top 28%

Translation for teacher: they have more honor kids than we have 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...

60 babies will be born in the U.S.
244 babies will be born in China.
351 babies will be born in India.

The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that today's learning will have 10 - 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 employ less than 1 year.

More than 1 out of 2 are working for a company for whom they have works less than 5 year.

According to former Secretary of Education Richard Riley.....

the top 10 jobs that will be in demand in 2010 didn't exist in 2004.

We are currently preparing student for jobs that don't yet exist.

Using technologies that haven't yet been invented....

in order to solve ploblems we don't even know are ploblems yet. 

Name this country....

  • Richest in the world
  • Largest military
  • Center of world bussiness and finance
  • Strongest education system
  • World center of innovation and invention
  • Currency the world standard of value
  • Highest standard of living

England

in 1900

Did you know?

The U.S. is 20th. in the world in boardband internet penetration (Luxembourg just pass us)

Nintendo invested more than $140 million in research and development in 2002 alone.

The U.S. Federal government spent less than half as much on research and innovation in education.

1 of every 8 couple married in the U.S. last year met online.

There are over 106 million registered users of MySpace (as of september 2006).

If MySpace were a country, it would be the 11th.-largest in the world (between Japan and Mexico)

The average MySpace page is visited 30 times a day.

Did you know?

We are living in exponential times.

There are over 2.7 billion searches performed on Google each month.

To whom were these questions addressed B.G. (before Google)?

The number of text messages sent and recieved every day exceed the population of the planet.

There are about 540.000 words in the English language....

about 5 times as many as during Shakespeare's time.

More than 3,000 new books are published....

daily.

It is estimated that a week's 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 1.5 exabytes of unique new information will be generated world wide this year.

That's estimated to be more than in the previous 5,000 years.

The amount of new technical information is doubling every 2 years.

For students starting a four-years technical or college degree, this mean that....

half of what they learn in their first year of study will be outdated by their third year of study.

It is predicted to double every 72 hours by 2010.

Third genneration fiber optics has recently been tested by both NEC and Alcatel.

that pushes 10 trillion bits per second down one strand of fiber.

That's 1,900 CDs or 150 million simultaneous phone calls,every second.

It's currently tripling about every 6 months and is expected to do so for at least the next 20 years.

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.

Prediction that e-paper will be cheaper than real paper.

47 million laptops were shipped world wide last year.

The $100 laptop project is expecting to ship between 50 to 100 million labtops a year to children in underdeveloped countries.

Prediction are that by 2013 a supercomputer will be built that exceeds the computation capability of the human brain.

By 2023, when 1st-graders will be just 23 years old and beginning their (first) careers.....

It only will take a $1,000 computer to exceed the capabilities of the human brain.

And while technical predictions farther out than about 15 years are hard to make.....

prediction 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....