Did You Know?

1. Did You Know?

2. For this year’s 6th graders . . . the class of 2013 . . .

3. The Soviet Union has never existed • There has always been only one Germany • DNA has always been admissible in court • They are wireless, yet always connected

4. They grew up with and have outgrown faxing as a means of communication • “Google” has always been a verb • Text messaging is their e-mail • They have rarely mailed anything using a stamp

5. Did you know . . .

6. Sometimes size does matter.

7. If you’re one in a million in China . . .

8. There are 1,300 people just like you.

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

10. The 25% of the population in China with the highest IQ’s . . .

11. Is greater than the total population of North America.

12. In India, it’s the top 28%.

13. Translation for teachers:They have more honors kids than we have kids.

14. Did you know . . .

15. China will soon become the number one English speaking country in the world.

16. During the course of this 8 minute presentation . . .

17. 6 babies will be born in Canada • 244 babies will be born in China. • 351 babies will be born in India.

18. Estimates are that today’s learner will have 10-14 jobs . . .

19. By the age of 38.

20. More than 50% of all employees are in a job they have held less than 5 years.

21. The top 10 in-demand jobs in 2010 didn’t exist in 2004.

22. We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist . . .

23. Using technologies that haven’t been invented . . .

24. In order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet.

25. Name this country . . .

26. 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

27. England.

28. In 1900.

29. Did you know . . .

30. The US is 20th in the world in broadband Internet penetration.(July 2006)

31. 1 out of every 8 couples married in North America last year met online.

32. There are over 100 million registered users of MySpace.(August 2006)

33. The average MySpace page is visited 30 times a day.

34. If MySpace were a country it would be the 11th largest in the world.

35. There are only 8 planets in the Solar System

36. Wikipedia is the only encyclopedia that has this information

37. Did you know . . .

38. We are living in exponential times.

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

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

41. The number of text messages sent and received every day exceeds the population of the planet.

42. There are about 540,000 words in the English language . . .

43. About 5 times as many as during Shakespeare’s time.

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

45. Daily.

46. It’s estimated that a week’s worth of New York Times . . .

47. Contains more information than a person was likely to come across in a lifetime in the 18th century.

48. It’s estimated that 1.5 exabytes (that’s 1.5 x 1018) of unique new information will be generated worldwide this year.

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

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