1. Times Are Changing By Karl Fischer Arapahoe High School Centennial Colorado Adapted by Anne Jolly SERVE Center

2. Did you know...

3. Sometimes size does matter.

4. If you’re one in a million in China...

5. There are 1,300 people just like you.

6. The 25% of the population in China with the highest IQ’s...

7. Is greater than the total population of North America.

8. Translation for teachers: They have more honors kids than we have kids.

9. Did you know...

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

11. If you took every single job in the U.S. today and shipped it to China...

12. China would still have a labor surplus.

13. During the course of this 7 minute presentation...

14. 75 babies will be born in the U.S. 301 babies will be born in China.

15. The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that today’s student will have 10-14 jobs...

16. By the age of 38.

17. According to the U.S. Department of Labor...

18. 1 out of 4 workers today is working for a company they have been employed by for less than one year.

19. More than half have worked for their present company for less than five years.

20. According to former Secretary of Education Richard Riley...

21. The top 10 in-demand jobs in 2010 will not have existed in 2004.

22. We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist...

23. Using technologies that haven’t been invented...

24. In order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet.

25. Did You Know?

26. US economic preeminence in the 21 st century is not a given.

27. The jobs are going to where the best educated workforce is located John Chambers CEO Cisco Systems

28. Times Are Changing

29. Name this country...

30. Richest in the World 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

31. England,

32. In 1900.

33. Did you know...

34. The U.S. is 20 th in the world in broadband Internet penetration. (Luxembourg just passed us.)

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

36. The U.S. Federal Government spent less than half that much on Research and Innovation in Education.

37. 1 out of every 8 couples married in the U.S. last year met online.

38. There are over 100 million registered users of MySpace. (August 2006)

39. The average MySpace page is visited 30 times a day.

40. Times Are Changing

41. We are living in exponential times.

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

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

44. The number of text messages sent and received every day exceeds the population of the earth.

45. In 1996 text messaging was still in it’s infancy

46. There are about 540,000 words in the English language today...

47. About 5 times as many as during Shakespeare’s time.

48. More than 3,000 new books are published...

49. Daily.

50. Did you know...

51. It’s estimated that a week’s worth of New York Times...

52. Contains more information than a person was likely to come across in a lifetime in the 18 th century.

53. Approximately 1.5 exabytes (that’s 1.5 x 10 18 ) of unique new information will be generated worldwide this year.

54. That’s more than in the previous 5,000 years combined.

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

56. That means for students starting a four-year technical or college degree...

57. Half of what they learn in their first year of study will be outdated by their third year of study.

58. It’s predicted that the amount of new information will double every 72 hours by 2010.

59. Third generation fiber optics has recently been tested by NEC and Alcatel...

60. It pushes 10 trillion bits per second down one strand of fiber.

61. That’s 150 million simultaneous phone calls every second.

62. 50 to 100 million laptops a year will be shipped to children in underdeveloped countries via the $100 laptop project

63. Predictions are that by 2013 a supercomputer will be built that exceeds the computation capability of the Human Brain

64. What does it all mean?

65. To maintain our place in the world, we must prepare our students to be innovative.

66. They must be able to generate a steady flow of new ideas.

67. They must be prepared to create, design, and develop

68. They must be able to solve problems In Fact...

69. It would help if they could recognize a problem!!

70. Hmmm... Which multiple choice test prepares them for that?

71. On the other hand... What kind of teaching and learning prepares them for that?

72. Education is the best hope for our nation!

73. Education is complex. It’s filled with challenges that we can meet successfully only when we work in teams to address them.

74. Think about it...

75. Our students are our messengers we will send to a world we will never see.

76. What will their message be?