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The document discusses the rapid population growth and educational shifts in China and India compared to the U.S., highlighting that these countries have a significant number of high-IQ individuals and a labor surplus. It also mentions the fast evolution of job markets and technology, emphasizing that education must adapt quickly to prepare for future roles that are constantly changing. Additionally, it notes the overwhelming amount of information generated today and the necessity for students to stay current in their knowledge and skills.
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Did You Know (Right now)
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- 2. I like mybreakfast egg a bit hard inside, exactly 6.5 minutes
- 3. 8 minutes onChina and why we live in exiting times By Lukas Ritzel for CCM 2007
- 4. Did You Know . . .
- 5. Sometimes size does matter .
- 6. If you’re 1 in a million in China . . .
- 7. There are 1,300 people just like you .
- 8. In India, there are 1,100 people just like you.
- 9. The 25% of the population in China with the highest IQ’s . . .
- 10. Is greater than the total population of North America .
- 11. In India, it’sthe top 28%.
- 12. Translation for Westerners:They (China or/and India) have more honor-kids than we have kids .
- 13. Did you know . . .
- 14. China willsoon become the number one English speaking country in the world.
- 15. If you tookevery single job in the U.S . today and shipped it to China . . .
- 16. China would still have a labor surplus +++ .
- 17. During the courseof this 6.5 minutes presentation . .
- 18. 60 babies will be born in the U.S. 244 babies will be born in China. 351 babies will be born in India.
- 19. The U.S. Departmentof Labor estimates that today’s learner will have 10-16 jobs . . .
- 20. By the ageof 38.
- 21. According to theU.S. Department of Labor . . .
- 22. 1 out of4 workers today is working for a company they have been employed by for less than one year .
- 23. More than 1out of 2 are working for a company they have worked for, for less than five years .
- 24. The top10 in-demand jobs in 2010 didn’t exist in 2004 .
- 25. DCT iscurrently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist . . .
- 26. Using technologies that haven’t been invented . . .
- 27. In order tosolve problems we don’t even know are problems yet .
- 28. Name this country . . .
- 29. Richest in theWorld 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
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- 32. Did you know . . .
- 33. The U.S. is20 th in the world in broadband Internet penetration. (Luxembourg just passed them.)
- 34. In 2002 alone Nintendo invested more than $140 million in Research and Development.
- 35. The U.S. Federal Government spent less than half as much on Research and Innovation in Education .
- 36. 1 out ofevery 8 couples married in the U.S. last year met online .
- 37. There are over120 million registered users of MySpace. (January 2007)
- 38. The average MySpace page is visited 30 times a day.
- 39. Did you know . . .
- 40. There are over 2.7 billion searches performed on each month.
- 41. To whom werethese questions addressed B.G.? (Before Google)
- 42. The number oftext messages sent and received every day exceeds the population of the planet.
- 43. There are about 540,000 words in the English language . .
- 44. About 5 times as many as during Shakespeare’s time.
- 45. More than 3,000 new books are published . . .
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- 47. It’s estimated thata week’s worth of New York Times . . .
- 48. … .Contains more information than a person was likely to come across in a lifetime in the 18 th century.
- 49. It’s estimated that 1.5 exabytes (that’s 1.5 x 10 18 ) of unique new information will be generated worldwide this year .
- 50. That’s estimated tobe more than in the previous 5,000 years.
- 51. The amount ofnew technical information is doubling every 2 years.
- 52. That means foryou as a student starting a four-year DCT degree . . .
- 53. Half of what YOU learn in your first year of study will be outdated by the third year of your studies.
- 54. It’s predicted todouble every 72 hours by 2010 .
- 55. What does itall mean ?
- 56. Shift Happens .
- 57. Now you know . . .