Did you know? - version read at School Committee meeting

Did you know . . .
Sometimes size does matter.
If you’re one in a million in China . . .
There are 1,300 people just like you.
In India, there are 1,100 people just like you.
The 25% of the population in China with the highest IQ’s . . .
Is greater than the total population of North America.
In India, it’s the top 28%.
Translation for teachers: They have more honors kids than we have kids.
Did you know . . .
China will soon become the number one English speaking country in the world.
India is currently the largest English speaking country and the largest democracy in the world.

The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that today’s learner will have 10-14 jobs
By the age of 38.
According to the U.S. Department of Labor . . .
1 out of 4 workers today is working for a company they have been employed by
for less than one year.
The top 10 in-demand jobs in 2010 didn’t 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.

Name this country . . .
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
England.
In 1900.

Did you know . . .
We are living in exponential times.
There are over 2.7 billion searches performed on Google each month.
To whom were these questions addressed B.G.?
(Before Google)
The number of text messages sent and received every day exceeds the population
of the planet.
There are about 540,000 words in the English language . . .
About 5 times as many as during Shakespeare’s time.
More than 3,000 new books are published . . .
Daily.

It’s estimated that a week’s worth of New York Times . . .
Contains more information than a person was likely to come across in a lifetime in
the 18th century.
It’s estimated that 40 exabytes (that’s 4.0 x 1019) of unique new information will
be generated worldwide this year.
That’s estimated to be more than in the previous 5,000 years.
The amount of new technical information is doubling every 2 years.
It’s predicted to double every 72 hours by 2010.

47 million laptops were shipped worldwide last year.
The $100 laptop project is expecting to ship between 50 and 100 million laptops a
year to children in underdeveloped countries.

Predictions are that by 2013 a supercomputer will be built that exceeds the
computation capability of the Human Brain . . .
By 2023, a $1,000 computer will exceed the computation capability of the Human
Brain . . .

And while technical predictions further out than about 15 years are hard to do . . .
Predictions are that by 2049 a $1,000 computer will exceed the computational
capabilities of the human race.
What does it all mean?
Shift Happens.
Now you know . . .

Mashup of work done by these folks and then seen at NSBA EXPO
The Fischbowl: http://thefischbowl.blogspot.com
Fischbowl Presentations:
http://www.lps.k12.co.us/schools/arapahoe/fisch/fischbowlpresentations.htm