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Did You Know . . .

0. Did You Know. 0. If you’re one in a million in China. 0. There are 1,300 people just like you. http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/rankorder/2119rank.html. 0. In India, there are 1,100 people just like you. http://www.medindia.net/patients/calculators/pop_clock.asp. 0.

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Did You Know . . .

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  1. 0 Did You Know . . .

  2. 0 If you’re one in a million in China . . .

  3. 0 There are 1,300 people just like you. http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/rankorder/2119rank.html

  4. 0 In India, there are 1,100 people just like you. http://www.medindia.net/patients/calculators/pop_clock.asp

  5. 0 The 25% of the population in China with the highest IQ’s . . .

  6. 0 Is greater than the total population of North America. http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/rankorder/2119rank.html

  7. 0 In India, it’s the top 28%. http://www.medindia.net/patients/calculators/pop_clock.asp

  8. 0 Translation:They have more honors kids than we have kids. http://www.childtrendsdatabank.org/pdf/53_PDF.pdf#search=%22number%20of%20children%20in%20United%20States%22

  9. 0 Did you know . . .

  10. 0 China will soon become the number one English speaking country in the world.

  11. 0 If you took every single job in the U.S. today and shipped it to China . . .

  12. 0 China would still have a labor surplus.

  13. 0 During the course of this 45 minute presentation . . .

  14. 0 • 540 babies will be born in the U.S. • 2196 babies will be born in China. • 3159 babies will be born in India.

  15. 0 The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that today’s learner will have 10-14 jobs . . .

  16. 0 By the age of 38.

  17. 0 According to the U.S. Department of Labor . . .

  18. 0 1 out of 4 workers today is working for a company he has been employed by for less than one year.

  19. 0 More than 1 out of 2 are working at their current job for less than 5 years.

  20. 0 The top 10 in-demand jobs in 2010 didn’t exist in 2004.

  21. 0 Question for educators:How do we prepare our students for 14 different jobs and several different careers?

  22. 0 We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist . . .

  23. 0 using technologies that haven’t been invented . . .

  24. 0 in order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet. David Warlick – Connect Learning blog

  25. 0 Question for Administrators?How do we do this?

  26. 0 Name this country . . .

  27. 0 • 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

  28. 0 England.

  29. 0 In 1900.

  30. 0 Do you perceive a trend?

  31. 0 Did you know . . .

  32. 0 There are over 100 million registered users of MySpace.(August 2006)

  33. 0 The average MySpace page is visited 30 times a day. . .

  34. 0 or 17,000 hits per second.

  35. 0 Did you know . . .

  36. 0 We are living in exponential times.

  37. 0 There are over 2.7 billion searches performed on Google each month…

  38. 0 which indexed 25 billion web pages in 2005

  39. 0 up from 25 million in 7 years earlier.

  40. 0 To whom were these questions addressed B.G.?(Before Google)

  41. 0 Question:When did the word “Google” become a verb?

  42. 0 The blogosphere doubles in size every 200 days http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000436.html

  43. 0 with 2 new blogs being created every second http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000436.html

  44. 0 and 1,116 bloggers posting every minute

  45. 0 The number of text messages sent and received every day exceeds the population of the planet.

  46. 0 At a cost of $50 billion in 2004.

  47. 0 By their 21st birthday, digital kids will have sent/received 250,000 emails/IMs . . .

  48. 0 spent 10,000 hours on the phone,

  49. 0 and watched 20,000 hours of TV (with 500,000 commercials).

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

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