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During the course of this presentation…. 15 babies will be born in the UK 1 in 4 will have some sort of mental health problem during their life. It is estimated that…. 1 in 4 workers today is working for a company they have been employed by for less than a year.
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15 babies will be born in the UK 1 in 4 will have some sort of mental health problem during their life
1 in 4 workers today is working for a company they have been employed by for less than a year
Today’s learner will have 10 – 14 jobs ……. By the age of 38
According to former US secretary of education Richard Riley….
The top ten in demand jobs today …… did not exist in 2004
We are currently preparing students for jobs that do not yet exist
Using technologies that have not yet been invented
In order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet
In the UK, 98% of 12 year-olds want “to do well at school”
And yet, only 38%look forward to going to school
According to BBC News, a new blog is created ….every second
If Facebook were a country, it would be the 10th largest in the world (between Russia and Japan)
The average Facebook page is visited 30 times a day
1.4 million UK pupils have their own web page
There are over 2.7 billion searches performed on Google each month
The number of text messages sent and received every day exceeds the total population of the planet
… contains more information than a person was likely to come across in a lifetime in the 18th century
It is estimated that 40 exabytes (4.0 x 1019) of unique new information will be generated worldwide this year
That is more than in the previous 5,000 years
The amount ofnew technical information isdoublingevery 2 years
For students starting a three-year university degree, this means that . .
…half of what they learn in their first year of study will be outdated …. By the end of their studies !!!!
Third generation fibre optics have recently been tested that carry 10 trillion bits per second down a single strand of fibre
That is 1,900 CDs or 150 million phone calls every second !!!
It is currently tripling every 6 months and is expected to do so for the next 20 years
47 million laptops were shipped worldwide last year
7 out of ten teenagers have a handheld games machine
84% of young people play computer games at least once a fortnight…
9 out of 10 teenagers have a ….. home computer ….. mobile phone AND ….. games console
Predictions are that by 2013 a supercomputer will be built that exceeds the computation capability of the human brain
AND that by 2049 …… a £500 computer will exceed the computational capabilities ……. of the entire human species