Did you know?

Sometimes size does matter.

If you’re one in a million in Scotland…

… there are 5 people just like you.

If you’re one in a million in China…

… there are 1300 people just like you.

In India, there are 1100 people just like you.

The top third of the population in China with the highest IQ…

… is greater than the total population of the European Union.

In India, it’s the top 42%.

Translation for teachers: they have more young people in education than we have people.

If you consider together 13 variations on the spelling…

… ‘Mohamed’ was the 2 nd most popular name for a British boy in 2006.

During the course of this presentation…

… 6 babies will be born in the UK…

… 244 babies will be born in China…

… 351 babies will be born in India.

Britain came last in a UNICEF survey of children living in relative poverty in the developed world.

GROS expects the number of children in Scotland to drop by 15% over the next 25 years.

Did you know?

China will soon become the number one English-speaking country in the world.

If you took every job there is today in the UK and Germany and France and Italy and Poland…

and you outsourced them to China…

… it would still have a labour surplus.

The US Department of Labor estimates that today’s learner will have 10 to 14 jobs…

… by age 38.

According to the Department of Trade and Industry…

1 out of 4 workers today is working for a company for whom they have been employed less than 1 year.

The average Briton today will have 16 homes in their lifetime.

Twenty years ago, it was five.

According to former US Secretary of Education, Richard Riley…

… the top 10 jobs that will be in demand in 2010 didn’t exist in 2004.

We are currently preparing learners for jobs that don’t yet exist…

… using technologies that haven’t yet been invented…

… in order to solve problems we don’t yet recognise as problems.

Scotland accounts for 0.2% of global carbon emissions.

The refinery at Grangemouth accounts for 5% of the UK’s total carbon emissions.

Scotland’s estimated energy potential from renewable sources is an output of 59.1GW.

Our current consumption is 10.5GW

Did you know?

The only authorities in the UK with broadband Internet penetration above 50%...

are Shetland and Aberdeenshire.

(Stirling, Aberdeen and Moray make up the rest of the UK’s top five).

Did you know?

Nintendo invested more than $140 million in research and development in 2002 alone.

In the same period, the U.S. Federal Government spent less than half that much on research and innovation in education.

Wikipedia, the online user-created encylopedia, has 8 million articles in 253 languages.

One visitor in 20 will edit its content.

There are over 106 million registered users of MySpace.

If MySpace were a country, it would be the 11 th largest in the world (between Japan and Mexico).

The average MySpace page is visited 30 times a day.

Did you know?

We are living in exponential times.

There are over 2.7 billion searches performed on Google each month.

To whom were these questions addressed B.G. (before Google)?

In 2000, 17 billion text messages were sent worldwide.

By 2005, that figure had reached 500 billion.

There are about 540,000 words in the English language…

About 5 times as many as in Shakespeare’s time.

The British Library adds over 8000 items to its collection…

… every day

It is estimated that a week’s worth of New York Times…

… contains more information than an average person was likely to come across in a lifetime in the 18 th century.

It is estimated that 1.5 exabytes (1.5 x10 18 ) of unique new information will be generated worldwide next year.

That’s estimated to be more than all the information available for the previous 5000 years.

The amount of new technical information is doubling every 2 years.

For students starting a four-year technical degree, this means…

… half of what they learn in their first year of study will be outdated by their third year.

It is predicted to double every 72 hours by 2010.

Predictions are that e-paper will be cheaper than real paper.

The young people who left school this year have never lived in a world without the Internet.

Over 48 million laptops were sold worldwide last year.

The One Laptop Per Child Foundation is expecting to deliver between 50 to 100 million computers a year to children in developing countries.

By 2023, when today’s P1s will be just 21 years old and beginning their (first) careers…

… US researchers say it only will take a $1000 computer to exceed the capabilities of the human brain.

And while technical predictions beyond about 15 years are hard to make…

… US predictions are that by 2049 a $1000 computer will exceed the computational capabilities of the human race.

What does it all mean?

Shift happens and our young people need to be suitably equipped to enter a changing world

Now you know… …..how do we respond?