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Did You Know?. Vision Remix. Did you know?. Sometimes size does matter. If you’re one in a million in China. there are over 1,300 people just like you. In India, there are over 1,100 people just like you. The 23% of the population in China with the highest IQs.

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  1. Did You Know? Vision Remix

  2. Did you know?

  3. Sometimes size does matter.

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

  5. there are over 1,300 people just like you.

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

  7. The 23% of the population in China with the highest IQs . . .

  8. is greater than the total populationof the United States.

  9. In India, it’s the top 26%.

  10. Translation for U.S. teachers:China and India each havemore honors kids than theU.S. has kids.

  11. Did you know?

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

  13. If you took every single job in the U.S. today and shipped it to China . . .

  14. it still would have a labor surplus.

  15. During the course of this presentation . . .

  16. 67 babies will be born in the U.S. • 274 babies will be born in China. • 395 babies will be born in India.

  17. The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that today’s learner will have 10 to 14 jobs . . .

  18. by age 38.

  19. According to the U.S. Department of Labor . . .

  20. 1 out of 4 workers today is working for a company for whom they have been employed less than 1 year.

  21. More than 1 out of 2 are working for a company for whom they have worked less than 5 years.

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

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

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

  25. using technologies that haven’t yetbeen invented . . .

  26. in order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet.

  27. Name this country . . .

  28. 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

  29. Great Britain

  30. in 1900.

  31. Did you know?

  32. The U.S. is 24thin the world in broadband Internet penetration.(just behind Luxembourg)

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

  34. The U.S. federal government’s 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 proposed $0 (for the fifth year in a row)

  35. 1 of every 8 couples married in the U.S. in2005 met online.

  36. There are over 200 million registered users of MySpace (as of September 2007).

  37. If MySpace were a country,it would be the 5th largestin the world (between Indonesia and Brazil).

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

  39. Did you know?

  40. We are living in exponential times.

  41. There are over 37 billion searches performed on Google each month.

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

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

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

  45. about 5 times as many as during Shakespeare’s time.

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

  47. daily.

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

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

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