Karl Fisch created this presentation to start conversations with other teachers about the world their students are entering.
It is a collection of facts and figures about globalization, information age and America’s changing position in the world.
Since Karl generously shared the original presentation under a Creative Commons license, there have been several remixes, many YouTube versions, and SlideShare versions.
This is one of the video presentation of SHIFT HAPPENS
Created by Karl Fisch, and modified by Scott McLeod
The idea being that shifts in society are presenting us with some very real issues which must be addressed along with some startling facts.
The facts:
-In the next eight seconds, 32 babies will be born.
-Of the world's 2006 College graduates: 1.3 million came from the U.S., 3.1 million came from India, and 3.3 million came from China.
-Of the 3.1 million graduates from India one hundered percent of them speak English.
-It is estimated that in ten years the worlds largest population of English speakers will be from China
-One in four workers has been with their current employer for less than one full year.
-The United States Department of Labor estimates that todays students will have about 10 jobs by the time they are 38.
-Most of today's college majors did not even exist ten years ago, majors like: New media, Organicly produced Agriculture, e-buisiness, nanotechnology, and Homeland Security.
-Today's 21-year-olds have viewed 20,000 hours of television, played 10,000 hours of video games, talked 10,000 hours talking on the phone, sent 250,000 emails or instant messages, and have created more than %50 of today's internet content.
-70% of today's 4-year-olds have used the internet.
-It took 38 years for the radio to reach a market of 50 million people. It only took the TV 13 years to reach the 50 million mark. But it only took 4 years for the internet to reach the 50 million mark.
-The number of internet devices jumped frm 1000 in 1984 to 600,000,000 in 2006.
-The first commercial text message was sent in 1992, and today the number of text messages sent on any given day exceeds the population of our planet.
-The internet was first used widely in 1995, and in 2006, one in eight married couples met online.
-In this month alone there were 2.7 billion searches performed on the Google search engine.-There are curently more than 540,000 words in the English language, more than 5 times as many as Shakespeare's time.
-Today the amount of new technical information doubles every two years, and by 2010 it is predicted that the new information will double every two days.
-Currently the fiberoptic technology in use can push 10 trillion bits per second down a strand of fiber, this translates into 1,900 compact disks (CDs) or 150 million simultaneous telephone calls a second.
-There are nearly 2 billion children who live in developing countries, one in three of these children do not complete the fifth grade. The One Laptop per Child Project set out to change this by providing laptops for these children.
-It is believed that by the time the childen born in 2007 are six years of age a super computer will have more computational power than he human brain.
-It is predicted that by 2048 there will be a computer that costs $1,000 that will surpass the entire human race in computational power.
What does it all mean?
SHIFT HAPPENS
Today's student's are being trained to perform tasks that don't exist and technologies which we do not yet have, in order to solve the problems we don't know know are problems yet.
The truth of the matter WE LIVE IN EXPONENTIAL TIMES
What does that mean exactly?
It means that our society is growing in exponential leaps and bounds and there are things we must realize to prepare for the future.
The idea being that shifts in society are presenting us with some very real issues which must be addressed along with some startling facts.
The facts:
-In the next eight seconds, 32 babies will be born.
-Of the world's 2006 College graduates: 1.3 million came from the U.S., 3.1 million came from India, and 3.3 million came from China.
-Of the 3.1 million graduates from India one hundered percent of them speak English.
-It is estimated that in ten years the worlds largest population of English speakers will be from China
-One in four workers has been with their current employer for less than one full year.
-The United States Department of Labor estimates that todays students will have about 10 jobs by the time they are 38.
-Most of today's college majors did not even exist ten years ago, majors like: New media, Organicly produced Agriculture, e-buisiness, nanotechnology, and Homeland Security.
-Today's 21-year-olds have viewed 20,000 hours of television, played 10,000 hours of video games, talked 10,000 hours talking on the phone, sent 250,000 emails or instant messages, and have created more than %50 of today's internet content.
-70% of today's 4-year-olds have used the internet.
-It took 38 years for the radio to reach a market of 50 million people. It only took the TV 13 years to reach the 50 million mark. But it only took 4 years for the internet to reach the 50 million mark.
-The number of internet devices jumped frm 1000 in 1984 to 600,000,000 in 2006.
-The first commercial text message was sent in 1992, and today the number of text messages sent on any given day exceeds the population of our planet.
-The internet was first used widely in 1995, and in 2006, one in eight married couples met online.
-In this month alone there were 2.7 billion searches performed on the Google search engine.-There are curently more than 540,000 words in the English language, more than 5 times as many as Shakespeare's time.
-Today the amount of new technical information doubles every two years, and by 2010 it is predicted that the new information will double every two days.
-Currently the fiberoptic technology in use can push 10 trillion bits per second down a strand of fiber, this translates into 1,900 compact disks (CDs) or 150 million simultaneous telephone calls a second.
-There are nearly 2 billion children who live in developing countries, one in three of these children do not complete the fifth grade. The One Laptop per Child Project set out to change this by providing laptops for these children.
-It is believed that by the time the childen born in 2007 are six years of age a super computer will have more computational power than he human brain.
-It is predicted that by 2048 there will be a computer that costs $1,000 that will surpass the entire human race in computational power.
What does it all mean?
SHIFT HAPPENS
Today's student's are being trained to perform tasks that don't exist and technologies which we do not yet have, in order to solve the problems we don't know know are problems yet.
The truth of the matter WE LIVE IN EXPONENTIAL TIMES
What does that mean exactly?
It means that our society is growing in exponential leaps and bounds and there are things we must realize to prepare for the future.
