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Part I. Did you know?. Part II. A Model … The School of the Future. Part III. Designing the School of the Future. 0. Did You Know. With thanks to Karl Fisch, Arapahoe High School, Centennial, CO - The Fischbowl. 0. Sometimes size does matter. 0.
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Part I Did you know? Part II A Model … The School of the Future Part III Designing the School of the Future
0 Did You Know . . . With thanks to Karl Fisch, Arapahoe High School, Centennial, CO - The Fischbowl
0 Sometimes size does matter.
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 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/rankorder/2119rank.html
0 In India, it’s the top 28%. http://www.medindia.net/patients/calculators/pop_clock.asp
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
0 Did you know . . .
0 China will soon become the number one English speaking country in the world.
0 If you took every single job in the U.S. today and shipped it to China . . .
0 China would still have a labor surplus.
0 During the course of a 75 minute presentation . . .
0 540 babies will be born in the U.S. 2196 babies will be born in China. 3159 babies will be born in India.
0 The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that today’s learner will have 10-14 jobs . . .
0 By the age of 38.
0 According to the U.S. Department of Labor . . .
0 1 out of 4 workers today is working for a company he has been employed by for less than one year.
0 More than 1 out of 2 are working at their current job for less than 5 years.
0 The top 10 in-demand jobs in 2010 didn’t exist in 2004.
0 Question for educators:How do we prepare our students for 14 different jobs and several different careers?
0 We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist . . .
0 using technologies that haven’t been invented . . .
0 in order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet. David Warlick – Connect Learning blog
0 Question for Administrators:How do we do this?
0 Name this country . . .
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
0 England.
0 In 1900.
0 Do you perceive a trend?
0 Did you know . . .
0 The U.S. is 20th in the world in broadband Internet penetration.(Luxembourg just passed us.)
0 1 out of every 8 couples married in the U.S. last year
0 . . . met online.
0 There are over 100 million registered users of MySpace.(August 2006)
0 The average MySpace page is visited 30 times a day. . .
0 or 17,000 hits per second.
0 Did you know . . .
0 We are living in exponential times.
0 The number of text messages sent and received every day exceeds the population of the planet…
0 averaging 100 text messages for every person in the world…
0 at a cost of $50 billion in 2004.
0 By their 21st birthday, digital kids will have sent/received 250,000 emails/IMs . . .
0 spent 10,000 hours on the phone,
0 and watched 20,000 hours of TV (with 500,000 commercials).
Kids use electronic media 6.5 hours a day into which they pack 8.5 hours of exposure to that media. How?