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DID YOUKNOW?
By Liza Overton, Katie Kues, Amy Overton7th Grade, St. Charles, MO
If you’reone in a million
in China…
…there are 1,300 people
just like you.
The 25% of China’spopulation with the
highest IQ’s…
DID
YOU
KNOW
…is greater than America’s population
Translation:They have more honor
students than America has students.
If you took every single job in the U.S. today and shipped it to
China…
DID
YOU
KNOW
…they would stillhave a labor surplus.
We are currently preparing studentsfor jobs that don’t exist yet…
Using technologies that haven’t been invented…
In order to solve problems…
We don’t even know are problems yet.
The U.S Department of Commerce ranked industry sections by their level of technology intensiveness….
Education was ranked 55th
…DEAD LAST…
Below Coal Mining
YET!!
The fastest growing age group using the Internet is… 2-5 year olds
(NetDay News, 2005)
Fully half of all teens and 69% of teens who use the Internet could be considered
content Creators.
Millions of amateur reporters now have
Their own digital printing press. They are
editors who blog. (Pein, 2005)
Are you using a Blog in your classroom?
73% of students havea cell phone.
Project Tomorrow, 2007
The total number of texts sent and received each day exceeds the population of the world.
DID
YOU
KNOW
DID
YOU
KNOW How are your
student’s using their
phones during class?
Years it took to reach a market audience of 50 billion?
By radio 38 years.
By TV 13 years
Years it took to reach a market audience of 50 billion?
By internet 4 years
Years it took to reach a market audience of 50 billion?
By iPods 3 years
Years it took to reach a market audience of 50 billion?
As teachers are we reaching our audience
the same way we always have?
Is it working?!?!?!
There are 100,000 podcasts and subscribers and
growing @ 20% per month.
Are you creating Podcasts in your
classroom?
Technology has become anIndispensable tool in the
education of today’s students.
Netday survey, 2005
According to Alan November, an educational consultant, in order to solve these problems We need to teach our Children 3 things…
1. We need to teach our studentshow to deal withmassive amountsof information.
Do our students know how?
2. We need to teach our students global communication, starting in Kindergarten.
Do our students know how?
3. We need to teach ourstudents to be self directed andunderstand how toorganize more andmore of their own learning.Do our students
know how?
We can’t solve problemsby using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. –Albert Einstein
Research by Karl Fischer: for the original Did You Know,
Scott McLead, Jeff Beanmen
Alan NovemberDavid WarlickMark Prensky
Thomas FriedmanWill Richardson
Ian JukesChris Dede
Ray KurzwellAngus King
Milken ConferenceDan SchmidtHowie DiBlasi
Adapted from:Future Technology 2009 The Year of Technology Invention
Did you know 5?
