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Did you know . . .

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Sometimes size does matter.

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

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There are 1,300 people just like you.

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

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

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Is greater than the total population of North America.

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In India, it’s the top 28%.

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Translation for teachers:They have more honors kids

than we have kids.

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Did you know . . .

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China will soon become the number one English speaking

country in the world.

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

China . . .

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China would still have a labor surplus.

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During the course of this 8 minute presentation . . .

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• 60 babies will be born in the U.S.

• 244 babies will be born in China.

• 351 babies will be born in India.

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The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that today’s learner

will have 10-14 jobs . . .

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By the age of 38.

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

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1 out of 4 workers today is working for a company they

have been employed by for less than one year.

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More than 1 out of 2 are working for a company they have worked

for for less than five years.

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According to former Secretary of Education Richard Riley . . .

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

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

exist . . .

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Using technologies that haven’t been invented . . .

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

yet.

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Name this country . . .

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• 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

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United Kingdom.

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In 1900.

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Did you know . . .

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

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In 2002 alone Nintendo invested more than $140 million in

research and development.

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The U.S. Federal Government spent less than half as much on

Research and Innovation in Education.

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1 out of every 8 couples married in the U.S. last year met online.

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There are over 100 million registered users of MySpace.

(August 2006)

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The average MySpace page is visited 30 times a day.

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Did you know . . .

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We are living in exponential times.

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There are over 2.7 billion searches performed on Google

each month.

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

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The number of text messages sent and received every day

exceeds the population of the planet.

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There are about 540,000 words in the English language . . .

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About 5 times as many as during Shakespeare’s time.

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More than 3,000 new books are published . . .

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Daily.

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It’s estimated that a week’s worth of New York Times . . .

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Contains more information than a person was likely to come

across in a lifetime in the 18th century.

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It’s estimated that 40 exabytes (that’s 4.0 x 1019) of unique new information will be generated

worldwide this year.

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

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The amount of new technical information is doubling every 2

years.

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It’s predicted to double every 72 hours by 2010.

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Third generation fiber optics has recently been separately tested

by NEC and Alcatel . . .

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That pushes 10 trillion bits per second down one strand of fiber.

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That’s 1,900 CDs or 150 million simultaneous phone calls every

second.

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It’s currently tripling about every 6 months and is expected to do so for at least the next 20 years.

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The fiber is already there, they’re just improving the switches on

the ends. Which means the marginal cost of these

improvements is effectively $0.

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Predictions are thate-paper will be cheaper than real

paper.

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47 million laptops were shipped worldwide last year.

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The $100 laptop project is expecting to ship between 50

and 100 million laptops a year to children in underdeveloped

countries.

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Predictions are that by 2013 a supercomputer will be built that

exceeds the computation capability of the Human

Brain . . .

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By 2023, a $1,000 computer will exceed the computation

capability of the Human Brain . . .

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First grader Abby will be just 23 years old and beginning her

(first) career . . .

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And while technical predictions further out than about 15 years

are hard to do . . .

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Predictions are that by 2049 a $1,000 computer will exceed the computational capabilities of the

human race.

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What does it all mean?

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Shift Happens.

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Now you know . . .


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