Did you know that sometimes - Size does matter.....................
A presentation by Carl Fisch:
My administration asked me if I wanted to speak at one of our beginning of the year faculty meetings. I often provide updates on what's new and different with technology in our building and what teachers need to know to get the year started. But this year I'm really focused on staff development and the "vision" of where we should be headed, so I wanted to do something different………………………..
I put together a PowerPoint presentation with some (hopefully) thought-provoking ideas. I was hoping by telling some of these "stories" to our faculty, I could get them thinking about - and discussing with each other - the world our students are entering. To get them to really think about what our students are going to need to be successful in the 21st century, and then how that might impact what they do in their classrooms.
Here is Carl’s presentation
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 honours kids than we have kids.
Did you know . . .
China will soon become the number one English speaking country in the world.
If you took every single job in the U.S. today and shipped it to China . . .
China would still have a labour surplus.
During the course of this presentation . . .
60 babies
will be born in the U.S.
244 babies will be born in China.
351 babies will be born in India.
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.
More than 1 out of 2 are working for a company they have worked for less than five years.
According to former Secretary of Education Richard Riley . . .
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 . . .
The U.S. is
20th in the world in broadband Internet penetration.
(Luxembourg just passed us.)
In 2002 alone Nintendo invested more than $140 million in research and development.
The U.S. Federal Government spent less than half as much on Research and Innovation in Education.
1 out of every 8 couples married in the U.S. last year met online.
There are over 106 million registered users of MySpace.(September
2006)
If
MySpace were a country, it would be the 11th-largest in the world (between Japan
and
Mexico)*
The average MySpace page is visited 30 times a day.
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.
Third generation fiber optics has recently been separately tested by NEC and Alcatel . .
That pushes 10 trillion bits per second down one strand of fiber.
That’s 1,900 CDs or 150 million simultaneous phone calls every second.
It’s currently tripling about every 6 months and is expected to do so for at least the next 20 years.
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.
Predictions are that e-paper will be cheaper than real paper.
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 . . .
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Thank you for posting this -it's a gem. Puts things into perspective in a way I haven't seen before.
Wow.
As far as IQ goes,
the Devil has as high an IQ as God. Except that they are differentially directed. It is Aspiration that makes IQ meaningful. How do the chinese differ from those of, say, high IQ in India or the UK? They may all be capable of acquiring an 'honours', but how honourable they are is a completely different matter. From my studies of chinese history, philosophy, culture, art and religion, i learnt that China ought to be feared. In a nutshell, they are, generally, a nation of apathetic, self-serving, ruthless, and vicious people who have been reared as such because of an exceedingly repressive government for more than 2000 years.
When one fails to question an evil government, one becomes more amenable to incorporating such a perspective into one's way of seeing things.
When one fails to question an evil government, one has little choice but to do unto others that which one would not want done unto oneself in order to feed both themselves and the government.
When we couple these two points
...with the fact that china has been accustomed to doing things in one way, valuing tradition for itself, and spurning all novelty unless approved by the relevant authorities, and having been shorn off the critical faculty by being forced to tow the official line for more than 2000 years, we are in for a bigoted, ruthless and opportunistic experience.
A nation borne off isolation and oppression bodes ill for integration and empathy on the global stage. Sad indeed, but true indeed.
And I hope your son is doing well................!!
But the truth is that any country that lives very much in isolation and has a domineering nature is not a recipe for good tidings for the world.
A interesting story today, I went shopping with Hubby to get a pair of dress shoes for our son's wedding. The pair we ended up choosing were made from kangaroo leather and were quite pricey in comparison to the others. Given we live in Australia, I was curious to see where they were made given the animal hide they were made from. Yep you guess it, they were not made in Australia, they were made in India - I cannot imagine the price if they had of been made in Australia, as it was they cost $220AU and trust me we don't generally spend that much on a pair of shoes, but knowing my hubby he will still be wearing them in 20 years time - so he will get his money's worth out of them. But they are very nice and comfortable.
Cheers :-)