DID YOU KNOW?

Did You Know?

• If you’re one in a million in China…• …there are 1,300 people just like you.

• China will soon become the Number One English speaking country in the world.

• The 25% of India’s population with the highest IQs…• …is greater than the total population of the United States.

• Translation: India has more honors kids than America has kids.

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•The top 10 in-demand jobs in 2010…•…did not exist in 2004.

•We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist…•…using technologies that haven’t been invented…•…in order to solve problems…•…we don’t even know are problems yet.

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• The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that today’s learner will have 10 – 14 jobs…• …by the age of 38.

• 1 in 4 workers has been with their current employer for less than a year.• 1 in 2 has been there less than 5 years.

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• 1 out of 8 couples married in the U.S. last year (2011) met online.

• There are 845 million monthly active users of Facebook.• Facebook is now available in more that 70 languages.• If Facebook were a country it would be the third largest (behind

China and India)

• Twitter is currently seeing about 50 million Tweets per day• That breaks down to about 600 Tweets per second

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• We are living in exponential times

• There are 31 Billion searches on Google every month.• In 2006, this number was 2.7 Billion.• To whom were these questions addressed B.G.? (Before Google)

• The first commercial text message was sent in December of 1992.• Today, the number of text messages sent and received everyday,

exceeds the total population of the planet.

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•Radio – 38 years

• TV – 13 years

• Internet – 4 years

• iPod – 3 years

• Facebook – 2 years

Years it took to reach a market audience of 50 million

Did You Know?• T h e n u m b e r o f i n t e r n e t d e v i c e s i n 1 9 8 4 w a s 1 , 0 0 0

• T h e n u m b e r o f i n t e r n e t d e v i c e s i n 1 9 9 2 w a s 1 , 0 0 0 , 0 0 0

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• T h e r e a r e a b o u t 5 4 0 , 0 0 0 w o r d s i n t h e E n g l i s h l a n g u a g e

• A b o u t 5 X a s m a n y a s d u r i n g S h a k e s p e a r e ’ s ti m e

• I t i s e s ti m a t e d t h a t a w e e k ’ s w o r t h o f t h e N e w Y o r k T i m e s c o n t a i n s m o r e i n f o r m a ti o n t h a n a p e r s o n w a s l i k e l y t o c o m e a c r o s s i n a l i f e ti m e i n t h e 1 8 t h c e n t u r y .

• I t i s e s ti m a t e d t h a t 4 e x a b y t e s ( 4 . 0 x 1 0 ^ 1 9 ) o f u n i q u e i n f o r m a ti o n w i l l b e g e n e r a t e d t h i s y e a r .

• T h a t i s m o r e t h a n t h e p r e v i o u s 5 , 0 0 0 y e a r s .

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•The amount of new technical informati on is doubling every 2 years…

•For students starti ng a 4 year technical degree this means that…•…half of what they learn in their fi rst year of study will be outdated by their third year of study.

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• NTT Japan has successfully tested a fiber optic cable….• …that pushes 14 trillion bits per second down a single strand of fiber.

• Digital music sales in 2011 outstripped physical sales for the first time ever.

• Revenue from the iPhone and iPad now account for 72 percent of Apple’s total revenue.• Neither item could be bought five years ago…

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By 2013……a supercomputer will be built that exceeds the computational capabilities……of the human brain.

Predictions are that by 2049……a $1000 computer will exceed the computational capabilities of the entire human species.

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• During the course of this presentation…

• 67 babies were born in the U.S.• 274 babies were born in China• 395 babies were born in India

• And 694,000 songs were downloaded illegally.

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So What Does It All Mean?

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• The original presentation was created by Karl Fisch in 2007 for a professional development session in his school district.• It has been further developed by Scott McLeod.• The information in this presentation was updated in 2012.