This document discusses how video games and social networks have become essential tools, how jobs now exist that did not just a few years ago, and how the needs of today's students differ from the past in ways that are not addressed by traditional education systems. It notes that a seven-year old signed a six-figure endorsement deal to play professional video games, and quotes two experts pointing out flaws in modern classrooms in light of what is known about the brain.

1. Having Fun is a
Good Thing!

2. Sticky idea?

3. Video games are an absolute
essential for your toolkit

4. The top 10 jobs
predicted for 2010
didn’t exist in
2004

5. There are over
150 million people
using Social Networks

6. China has more
gifted kids
than we have kids

7. A seven year-old signed a
six figure endorsement deal to
play professional video games
thefischbowl.blogspot.com/2007/06/did-you-know-20.html

8. So what?

9. Today’s students
are no longer the
people our educational
system was designed
to teach.”
Marc Prensky