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Making Library 2.0 Work for YOU!

Making Library 2.0 Work for YOU!. Anthony Shamoun. 0. Did you know?. 0. The 25% of the population in China with the highest IQ’s. 0. Is greater than the total population of North America. http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook. 0. In India, it’s the top 28%.

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Making Library 2.0 Work for YOU!

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  1. Making Library 2.0 Work for YOU! Anthony Shamoun

  2. 0 Did you know?

  3. 0 The 25% of the population in China with the highest IQ’s .

  4. 0 Is greater than the total population of North America. http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook

  5. 0 In India, it’s the top 28%. http://www.medindia.net/patients

  6. 0 Translation:They have more honors kids than we have kids in this country. http://www.childtrendsdatabank.org

  7. 0 And our students will compete and prosper in a newly connected world using different skills and languages. http://www.childtrendsdatabank.org

  8. 0 Did you know . . .

  9. 0 China will soon become the number one English speaking country in the world.

  10. 0 The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that today’s learner will have 10-14 jobs

  11. 0 By the age of 38.

  12. 0 According to the U.S. Department of Labor . . .

  13. 0 1 out of 4 workers today are working at their current job less than one year.

  14. 0 More than 1 out of 2 are working at their current job for less than 5 years.

  15. 0 The top 10 in-demand jobs in 2010 didn’t exist in 2004.

  16. 0 Question:How do we prepare students for a world like this?

  17. 0 Next Question:Does the library still have a role in this changing world?

  18. 0 We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist . . .

  19. 0 Getting ready to employ workers using technologies that haven’t been invented…

  20. 0 in order to solve problems we don’t even know exist yet. David Warlick – Connect Learning blog

  21. 0 How do we do this?

  22. 0 Where do students go for reliable information in a world that is changing faster than they even realize?

  23. 0 Did you know . . .

  24. 0 Facebook had:100 Million Users in July ‘08 120 Million Users in Nov. ‘08 150 Million Users in Jan. ‘09 Source: Facebook Blog

  25. 0 There are over 267 million registered users of MySpace. (September 2008) Source: ComScore

  26. 0 The average MySpace page is visited 30 times a day. . .

  27. 0 or 17,000 hits per second.

  28. 0 There are over 7.3 billion searches performed on Google each month… Citi Investment Research (Report as of August 2008)

  29. 0 Which indexed 25 million pages in 1998.

  30. 0 Had 25 billion web pages indexed by 2005

  31. 0 And in 2008 surpassed the1 Trillion mark. Source: Official Google Blog

  32. 0 To whom were these questions addressed before Google??

  33. How do today’s learners sort all of this information? Make Sense of it?

  34. 0 The blogosphere doubles in size every 200 days http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives

  35. 0 with 2 new blogs being created every second http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives

  36. 0 and 1,116 bloggers posting every minute

  37. 0 The number of text messages sent and received every day exceeds the population of the planet.

  38. 0 By their 21st birthday, digital kids will have sent/received 250,000 emails/IMs

  39. 0 spent 10,000 hours on the phone,

  40. 0 and watched 20,000 hours of TV (with 500,000 commercials).

  41. 0 Kids use electronic media 6.5 hours a day into which they pack 8.5 hours of exposure to that media. How?

  42. 0 They multitask.(But they need tremendous help understanding what is presented to them.)

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

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

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

  46. Daily.

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

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

  49. It’s estimated that 1.5 exabytes (that’s 1.5 x 1018) of unique new information was generated worldwide in 2007.

  50. That is more information than in the previous 5,000 years combined…

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