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Did You Know . . .

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. 25% of the population in China with the highest IQ’s. In India, it’s the top 28%.

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  1. Did You Know . . .

  2. Sometimes size does matter.

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

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

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

  6. 25% of the population in China with the highest IQ’s . . .

  7. In India, it’s the top 28%.

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

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

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

  11. China would still have a labor surplus.

  12. During the course of this presentation . . .

  13. 60 babies will be born in the U.S. • 244 babies will be born in China. • 351 babies will be born in India.

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

  15. By the age of 38.

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

  17. 1 out of 4 workers today is working for a company they have been employed by for less than one year.

  18. More than 1 out of 2 are working for a company they have worked for for less than five years.

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

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

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

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

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

  24. Did you know . . .

  25. The U.S. is 20th in the world in broadband Internet penetration.(Luxembourg just passed us.)

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

  27. The U.S. Federal Government spent less than half as much on Research and Innovation in Education.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  36. That means for a student starting a four-year technical or college degree . . .

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

  38. 47 million laptops were shipped worldwide last year.

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

  40. Predictions are that by 2013 a supercomputer will be built that exceeds the computation capability of the HumanBrain . . .

  41. Now you know . . .

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