This document discusses how technology is changing the landscape of education. It notes that China's most intelligent 25% exceeds the entire US population. It also states that if all US jobs were moved to China, they would still have a labor surplus. The document questions whether schools are preparing students for jobs that don't yet exist, using technologies not invented, to solve problems we can't foresee. It highlights how new technologies like the internet, iPods, and smartphones rapidly reached massive audiences. The document advocates teaching students to manage large amounts of information, global communication skills, and self-directed learning.

1. Did YouKnow? By Liza Overton, Katie Kues, Amy Overton 7th Grade, St. Charles, MO

2. If you’reone in a millionin China… …there are 1,300 people just like you.

3. did you Know The 25% of China’spopulation with thehighest IQ’s… …is greater than America’s population

4. Translation: They have more honor students than America has students.

5. did you Know If you took every single job in the U.S. today and shipped it to China… …they would still have a labor surplus.

8. We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t exist yet…

9. Using technologies that haven’t been invented…

10. In order to solve problems… We don’t even know are problems yet.

11. The U.S Department of Commerce ranked industry sections by their level of technology intensiveness….

12. Education was ranked 55th …DEAD LAST… Below Coal Mining

13. YET!! The fastest growing age group using the Internet is… 2-5 year olds (NetDay News, 2005)

14. Fully half of all teens and 69% of teens who use the Internet could be considered content Creators.

15. Millions of amateur reporters now have Their own digital printing press. They are editors who blog. (Pein, 2005)

16. Are you using a Blog in your classroom?

17. 73% of students have a cell phone. Project Tomorrow, 2007

18. did you Know The total number of texts sent and received each day exceeds the population of the world.

19. did you Know How are your student’s using their phones during class?

20. Years it took to reach a market audience of 50 billion? By radio 38 years.

21. Years it took to reach a market audience of 50 billion? By TV 13 years

22. Years it took to reach a market audience of 50 billion? By internet 4 years

23. Years it took to reach a market audience of 50 billion? By iPods 3 years

24. As teachers are we reaching our audience the same way we always have? Is it working?!?!?!

25. There are 100,000 podcasts and subscribers and growing @ 20% per month.

26. Are you creating Podcasts in your classroom?

27. Technology has become an Indispensable tool in the education of today’s students. Netday survey, 2005

28. According to Alan November, an educational consultant, in order to solve these problems We need to teach our Children 3 things…

29. We need to teach ourstudents how to deal with massive amounts of information. Do our students know how?

30. We need to teach our students global communication, starting in Kindergarten. Do our students know how?

31. We need to teach our students to be self directed and understand how to organize more and more of their own learning. Do our students know how?

32. We can’t solve problemsby using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. –Albert Einstein

33. Research by Karl Fischer: for the original Did You Know, Scott McLead, Jeff Beanmen Alan November David Warlick Mark Prensky Thomas Friedman Will Richardson Ian Jukes Chris Dede Ray Kurzwell Angus King Milken Conference Dan Schmidt HowieDiBlasi Adapted from: Future Technology 2009 The Year of Technology Invention Did you know 5?