“With 30 linear steps you get to 30. 

With 30 steps exponentially, you get to one billion.”

“With 30 linear steps you get to 30. With 30 steps exponentially….

you get to one billion.”Ray Kurzweil

Moore’s Law ‐

doubling every 18 months ‐

Year 1979 1984 2010

RAM 8KB 128KB 2GB

Hard Drive 128KB 400KB 350GB

CPU 2MHz 10Mhz 2.5GHz

Cost $5000 $3900 $500

1024KB 1MB

1024MB 1GB

2022

Moore’s Law 18 months 12 months

RAM 208TB >3000TB

Hard Drive 40TB >250000TB

CPU 1.2THz >550000TB

Cost $1.37 <$0.03

1024GB 1TB

Death of Distance

Change

From a Principal’s publication in 1815:

“Students today depend on paper too much. They don’t know how to write on a slate without getting chalk dust all over themselves. What will they do when they run out of paper?”

From the National Teachers Association in 1905:

“Students today depend too much on ink. They don’t know how to use a pen knife to sharpen a pencil. Pen and ink will never replace the pencil.”

From Rural American Teacher 1928:

“Students today depend upon store bought ink. They don’t know how to make their own. When they run out of ink they will be unable to write until their next trip to the settlement. This is a sadcommentary on modern education.”

From PTA Gazette 1941:

“Students today depend on those expensive fountain pens.We parents must not allow them to wallow in such luxury and to the detriment of their learning.”

From Federal Teachers 1950:

“Ballpoint pens will be the ruin of education in our country. Students use these devices then throw them away. The valuesof thrift and frugality are being discarded.”

• Increasing the standards for riding a dead horse• Comparing how we’re riding now with how we rode 

20 years ago

• Complaining about the state of horses these days

• Buying a stronger whip• Riding the horse for longer periods of time

• Saying things like, “This is the way we’ve always  ridden the horse.”

• Arranging to visit other sites where they ride dead  horses more efficiently

Rethink

50%

15%

Attendance Rate

Failure Rate

80%2%

Attendance Rate

Failure Rate

“What if school wasn’t preparation for real life….What if school was real life?”

Chris Lehmann

“By 2019, 50% of high school classes will be taken online.”

Christianson & Horn

$550 Million

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