Did You Know? 2.0

Duration: 8 minutes and 20 seconds

Country: United States

Language: English

License: CC Attribution Share Alike

Genre: Viral Video

Producer: XPLANE

Director: Karl Fisch, Scott McLeod, and XPLANE

Views: 211,224 (11,396 embedded)

Posted by: scottmcleod on Jul 27, 2007

An official update to the original "Shift Happens" video from Karl Fisch and Scott McLeod, this June 2007 update includes new and updated statistics, thought-provoking questions and a fresh design. For more information, or to join the conversation, please visit http://shifthappens.wikispaces.com -- Content by Karl Fisch and Scott McLeod, design and development by XPLANE.

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Did you know?
Did you know?
in the next 8 seconds . . .
34 babies will be born
India: 5, China: 4, U.S.: 1
What will the world be like...
...for them?
Name this country . . .
• Richest in the world
• Largest military
• Center of world business and finance
• Strongest education system
• Currency the world standard of value
• Highest standard of living
Great Britain
Great Britain in 1900.
2006 college graduates
U.S.
U.S. 1.3 million
India
India 3.1 million
China
China 3.3 million
How many 2006 college graduates in India speak English?
100%
In 10 years it is predicted that the number one English speaking country in the world will be ...
China
Who would have predicted this 60 years ago?
Who would have predicted this 40 years ago?
Who would have predicted this 20 years ago?
Did you know?
According to the U.S. Department to Labor
1 in 4 workers has been with their current employer
less than one year
1 in 2 workers has been with their current employer
less than five years
The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that today's learners will have...
10 to 14 jobs...
by their 38th birthday
Many of today's college majors didn't exist 10 years ago
New media Organic agriculture
e-business Nanotechnology Homeland security
What will they study 10 years from now?
Today's 21-year-olds have:
Watched of TV 20,000 hours
Played 10,000 hours of video games
Talked 10,000 hours on the phone
And they've sent/received 250,000 e-mails or instant messages
More than 50% of U.S. 21 year-olds have created content on the web
More than 70% of U.S. 4 year-olds have used a computer
Years it took to reach a market audience of 50 million
Radio 38
TV 13
Computer 4
Number of Internet devices in 1984:1,000
Number of Internet devices in 1992:1,000,000
Number of Internet devices in 2006:6,000,000,000
Did you know?
We are living in exponential times
The first commercial text message was sent in December 1992
The number of text messages sent and received today...
exceeds the population of the planet
The Internet started being widely used by the general public in early 1995
1 out of 8 couples married in the US in 2005...
met online
Revenue for eBay in 2006:$6 billion
eBay was founded in 1996
There were more than 2.7 billion searches performed on Google...
...this month
To whom were those questions directed B.G?
(Before Google)
MySpace visitors
More than 230,000 new users signed up for MySpace...
today
If MySpace were a country...
It would be the 8th largest in the world
YouTube visitors since September 2005
Did you know?
There are more than 540,000 words in the English language...
about five times as many as during Shakespeare's time
web-surfer blog widget
e-learner dot-commer Internet
More than 3,000 books were published...
...today
The amount of technical information is doubling every two years
New information
By 2010, it's predicted to double...every 72 hours
Third generation fiber optics has recently been tested that push 10 trillion bits per second down a fiber
That is 1,900 CDs or 150 million simultaneous phone calls every second
It's currently tripling every six months
The fiber is already there, they're improving the switches on the end...
Which means the marginal cost of these improvements is effectively...
zero
Nearly 2 billion children live in developing countries
One in three never completes fifth grade
In 2005 the One Laptop per Child Project (OLPC) set out to provide laptops to these children
The first shipments should be in mid-2007
Kids who have never held a textbook will now hold the world
And be connected...to you
Predictions are that by the time
children born in 2007 are 6 years old,
a supercomputer's computation capabilities
will exceed
that of the human brain
And while predictions further out than 15 years are hard to do...
2007
2015
2049
a $1,000 computer
will exceed the computing capabilities
of the human race
what does this all mean?
shift happen
We are currently preparing students for jobs and technologies that don't yet exist...
in order to solve problems we don't even know are problems yet.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. - Albert Einstein -
Did you know...
There are students in China, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, and the USA who
remember understand analyze
evaluate create communicate collaborate
on projects everyday
Ask Your Kids:
Are you doing this in school?
Ask Your Principal:
How are you helping my child become literate in the 21st century?
Ask Your School Board:
Are you providing the resources and training necessary to prepare students to be successful in 21st century society?
Ask Your Elected Representatives:
Now that you know all this, what changes should be made to current education legislation?
What's your vision?
Did you know...
The original version of this presentation was created for a Colorado (USA) high school staff of 150 in August of 2006
to start a conversation about what our students need to be successful in the 21st century
By June 2007 it had started more than 5 million conversations around the world
And now that you know, we want you to join the conversation
Visit shifthappens.wikispaces.com

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