{"id":118,"date":"2008-04-22T11:53:55","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T16:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/?p=118"},"modified":"2008-04-22T11:55:22","modified_gmt":"2008-04-22T16:55:22","slug":"shift-happens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/?p=118","title":{"rendered":"Shift Happens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/pMcfrLYDm2U&#038;hl=en\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/pMcfrLYDm2U&#038;hl=en\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/shifthappens.wikispaces.com\" target=\"_blank\">Wicked Wiki of the West<\/a> behind this YouTube video and find more resources including history of presentation, suggestions for usage, and links to downloadable versions.<\/p>\n<p>From text of <em><strong><em><em>Did You Know? 2.0<\/em><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Did you know?<\/strong><br \/>\nIn the next 8 seconds . . .<br \/>\n34 babies will be born.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Name this country<\/strong> . . .<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Richest in the world<\/li>\n<li>Largest military<\/li>\n<li>Center of world business and finance<\/li>\n<li>Strongest education system<\/li>\n<li>Currency the world standard of value<\/li>\n<li>Highest standard of living<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Great Britain. In 1900.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2006 college graduate<\/strong>s<br \/>\nHow many 2006 college graduates in India speak English?<br \/>\nIn 10 years it is predicted that the number on English speaking country in the world will be . . .<br \/>\nChina.<br \/>\nWho would have predicted this 60 years ago?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Did you know<\/strong>?<br \/>\nAccording to the U.S. Department of Labor<br \/>\n1 in 4 workers has been with their current employer less than one year.<br \/>\n1 in 2 workers has been with their current employer less than five years.<br \/>\nThe U.S. Department of Labor estimates that today&#8217;s learners will have . . .<br \/>\n10 to 14 jobs . . .<br \/>\nby their 38th birthday<\/p>\n<p>Many of today&#8217;s college majors didn&#8217;t exist 10 years ago<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> New media<\/li>\n<li> Organic agriculture<\/li>\n<li> e-business<\/li>\n<li> Nanotechnology<\/li>\n<li> Homeland security<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What will they study 10 years from now?<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s 21-year-olds have:<br \/>\nWatched 20,000 hours of TV<br \/>\nPlayed 10,000 hours of video games<br \/>\nTalked 10,000 hours on the phone<br \/>\nAnd they&#8217;ve sent\/received 250,000 emails or instant messages<br \/>\nMore than 50% of U.S. 21-year-olds have created content on the web<br \/>\nMore than 70% of U.S. 4-year-olds have used a computer<br \/>\nYears it took to reach a market audience of 50 million<\/p>\n<p>Number of Internet devices in 1984: 1,000<br \/>\n1992 &#8211; 1,000,000<br \/>\n2006 &#8211; 600,000,000<\/p>\n<p><strong>Did you know?<\/strong><br \/>\nWe are living in exponential times<br \/>\nThe first commercial text message was sent in December 1992<br \/>\nThe number of text messages sent and received today . . .<br \/>\nexceeds the population of the planet<br \/>\nThe Internet started being widely used by the general public in early 1995<br \/>\n1 out of 8 couples married in the U.S. in 2005 . . .<br \/>\nmet online<br \/>\nRevenue for eBay in 2006: $1.7 billion<br \/>\neBay was founded in 1996<br \/>\nThere were more than 2.7 billion searches performed on Google . . .<br \/>\n. . . this month<\/p>\n<p>To whom were those questions directed B.G.?<br \/>\n(Before Google)<\/p>\n<p><strong>MySpace Visitor<\/strong>s<br \/>\nMore than 230,000 new users signed up for MySpace . . .<br \/>\ntoday<br \/>\nIf MySpace were a country . . .<br \/>\nit would be the 8th largest in the world<br \/>\nYouTube visitors since September 2005<\/p>\n<p><strong>Did you know?<\/strong><br \/>\nThere are more than 540,000 words in the English language . . .<br \/>\nabout five times as many as during Shakespeare&#8217;s time<br \/>\nMore than 3,000 books were published . . .<br \/>\n. . . today<br \/>\nThe amount of technical information is doubling every two years<br \/>\nBy 2010, it&#8217;s predicted to double . . .<br \/>\nevery 72 hours<br \/>\nThird generation fiber optics has recently been tested that push 10 trillion bits per second down a fiber<br \/>\nThat is 1,900 CDs or 150 million simultaneous phone calls every second<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s currently tripling every six months<br \/>\nThe fiber is already there, they&#8217;re just improving the switches on the end . . .<br \/>\nwhich means the marginal cost of these improvements is effectively . . .<br \/>\nzero<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 2 billion children live in developing countries<br \/>\nOne in three never completes fifth grade<br \/>\nIn 2005 the One Laptop per Child Project (OLPC) set out to provide laptops to these children<br \/>\nThe first shipments should be in mid-2007<br \/>\nKids who have never held a textbook will now hold the world<br \/>\nAnd be connected . . .<br \/>\nto you<br \/>\nPredictions are that by the time<br \/>\nchildren born in 2007 are 6 years old,<br \/>\na supercomputer&#8217;s computation capabilities<br \/>\nwill exceed<br \/>\nthat of the human brain<br \/>\nAnd while predictions further out than 15 years are hard to do . . .<br \/>\na $1,000 computer<br \/>\nwill exceed the computing capabilities<br \/>\nof the human race<br \/>\nwhat does this all mean?<\/p>\n<p>We are currently preparing students for jobs and technologies that don&#8217;t yet exist . . . in order to solve problems we don&#8217;t even know are problems yet.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We can&#8217;t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.&#8221; &#8211; Albert Einstein<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Did you know . . .<\/strong><br \/>\nThere are students in China, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, and the USA who<br \/>\n[graphic switches from: remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate, create, communicate, collaborate]<br \/>\non projects<br \/>\nevery day<br \/>\nAsk Your Kids: Are you doing this in school?<br \/>\nAsk Your Principal: How are you helping my child become literate in the 21st century?<br \/>\nAsk Your School Board: Are you providing the resources and training necessary to prepare students to be successful in 21st century society?<br \/>\nAsk Your Elected Representatives: Now that you know all this, what changes should be made to current education legislation?<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s your vision?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Did you know <\/strong>. . .<br \/>\nThe original version of this presentation was created for a Colorado (USA) high school staff of 150 in August of 2006<br \/>\nto start a conversation about what our students need to be successful in the 21st century<br \/>\nBy June 2007 it had started more than 5 million conversations around the world<br \/>\nAnd now that you know, we want you to join the conversation<br \/>\nVisit <a href=\"http:\/\/shifthappens.wikispaces.com\/\" title=\"shifthappens wiki\" target=\"_blank\">shifthappens.wikispaces.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to Sasha Anawalt at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.najp.org\/articles\/2008\/04\/shift-happens.html\">ARTicles<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Crossposted at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intlculturelab.org\/blog\/\">International Culture Lab<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visit the Wicked Wiki of the West behind this YouTube video and find more resources including history of presentation, suggestions for usage, and links to downloadable versions. 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