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Staff Orientation
2007-2008
September 4, 2007
Did You Know . . .
53 Million American Adults
( 44% ) of Internet users used
the Internet to publish,
respond, post photos, share
files and content
American teenagers today are
utilizing the interactive
capabilities of the Internet as
they create and share their
own media creations….
Fully half of all teens and 57%
of teens who use the Internet
could be considered Content
Creators
They have created a blog, wiki
or webpage, posted original
artwork, photography, stories or
videos online
8 out of 10 people do not know
what a Blog is
Do you ?
There are over 70 million
blogs and counting
1, 000,000 (million ) posts
each day on the blogs
The blogosphere is over 60
times bigger than it was
3 years ago.
China has 17 million blogs *
 35%
of all internet users in
China have a BLOG…..

* The Blog Herald-2006
9 out of 10 people do not know
what a Wiki is
Do you?
9 out of 10 do not know what a
Podcast is
Do you?
6 million American adults have
listened to podcasts
There are 100,000 podcasts
and subscribers are growing
@ 20 % per month
What the average teen is doing
outside of school on an average day:
6.5 hours with media outside of school
33% of on the Internet
26% on TV
21% telephone
15% radio
81 % of students have e-mail
accounts
75% of students have IM – (Instant
messenger accounts)
97% of students believe technology
use is very important in education
( Netday survey, 2005)
The fastest growing age
group for using the Internet
is….
2 – 5 year olds
( NetDay News , 2005)
YouTube serves 100 million
videos per day.
……served 2.5 billion videos to
nearly 20 million unique visitors in
June of 2006.
Do you know what YouTube is?
Did you know . . .
Sometimes size does matter.
If you’re one in a million in
China . . .
There are 1,300 people just
like you.
In India, there are 1,100
people just like you.
The 25% of the population in
China with the highest IQ’s . . .
Is greater than the total
population of North America.
In India, it’s the top 28%.
Translation for teachers:
They have more honors kids
than we have kids.
Did you know . . .
China will soon become the
number one English speaking
country in the world.
If you took every single job in
the U.S. today and shipped it to
China . . .
China would still have a labor
surplus.
China Mobile is the world’s
largest cellular company….
They have over 301 million
customers….
Translation…..China has more
cell phones than the U.S. has
people*……
*Business Week 2-5-2007
Your CPA has outsourced doing
your taxes to India to
accounting graduates that work
for $100 a month…
Message to Americans…
”Mama don’t let your kids grow
up to be accountants”.
During the course of this 8
minute presentation . . .
• 60 babies will be born in the U.S.
• 244 babies will be born in China.
• 351 babies will be born in India.
Did you know . . .
The U.S. Department of Labor
estimates that today’s learner will
have 10-14 jobs . . .
By the age of 38…
Where are all the workers?
Factory workers in Ho Chi Minh City make
$62 a month
A teacher in Beijing, China makes
$454 a month
A nurse in Beijing, China makes
$260 a month
41 % of companies around the world
are having trouble hiring the people
they need
Help Wanted:
Where the labor shortage is highest*
Mexico: 82%
Japan: 61%
U.S.
41%
Canada: 36%
Europe: 31%
China:
19%
India:
9%
*Business Week-April, 2007
Slowdown-What slowdown?
U.S companies make more and
more of their investments
overseas.
Steven R. Appleton: CEO of
Micron:
“I don’t have to hire one more
person in the U.S….I don’t have
to invest one more dollar hereand we will be just fine”*
Quoted to Michelle Thompson in a April interview on the Global Economy-5-2007
According to former Secretary of
Education Richard Riley . . .
The top 10 in-demand jobs in
2010 didn’t exist in 2004.
We are currently preparing
students for jobs that don’t yet
exist . . .
Using technologies that
haven’t been invented . . .
In order to solve problems we
don’t even know are
problems yet.
Did you know . . .
th
20
The U.S. is
in the world in
broadband Internet penetration.
(Luxembourg just passed us.)
Wired For Growth*
*Business Week April 9,2007
Europe Blows away the US and Asia
in Network Readiness Index:
#1. Denmark
#2. Sweden
#3. Singapore
#5. Switzerland
#6. Netherlands
#7. US
1 out of every 8 couples married
in the U.S. last year met online.
"In 2010 accessible online data is
expected to approach a Yottabyte……,
or 1 trillion terabytes.”
(yotta- septillions
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000)
*IBM Unveils Storage Capacity on Demand for Growing e-businesses Business Wire, October 27, 2000
There are over 100 million
registered users of MySpace.
(December: 2006)
The average MySpace page is
visited 30 times a day.
MySpace users call up an
average of 31.5 billion unique
page views per month----yes
31.5 BILLION
•MySpace page views were up
79% in April 2007*
•41% of the traffic comes from
people over 35*
*Business Week -2007
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)
The number of text messages
sent and received every day
exceeds the population of the
planet.
More than 1,442 new books
are published
……….… Daily.
It’s estimated that a week’s
worth of New York Times . . .
Contains more information than
a person was likely to come
across in a lifetime in the 18th
century.
It’s estimated that 1.5 exabytes
(that’s 1.5 x 1018) of unique new
information will be generated
worldwide this year.
That’s estimated to be more than
in the previous 5,000 years.
Did you know . . .
The amount of new technical
information is doubling every 2
years.
That means for a student
starting a four-year technical or
college degree . . .
Half of what they learn in their
first year of study will be
outdated by their third year of
study.
It’s predicted to double every
72 hours by 2010.
Third generation fiber optics has
recently been separately tested
by NEC and Alcatel . . .
That pushes 10 trillion bits per
second down one strand of fiber.
That’s 150 million simultaneous
phone calls every second.
“Young People Urgently Need
New Skills to Succeed in the
Global Economy”

Headline in the news Nov. 6. 2006
Technology has become an
indispensable tool in the
education of today’s students.
( Netday survey, 2005)
Read/Write Web tools have
relevance to state and local
core content curriculum
standards.
(Will Richardson, 2006)
Today’s students may not be
well suited to the more linear
progression of learning that
most educators employ.
( Mark Prensky)
Students think differently than
us..they develop hypertext
minds…they leap
around..their cognative
structures are parallel not
sequential.
( Mark Prenskey )
Alan November….
“We need to emphasized the
necessity of students learning
with others around the world and
stress that 3 skills are needed to
teach our children.”
1. “We need to teach our
students to deal with massive
amounts of information.”
2. “We need to teach our
students global communication,
starting with Kindergarten.”
3. “We need to teach our
students to be self-directed and
understand how to organize
more and more of their own
learning.”
“We can’t avoid learning
these tools. We can’t walk
away from this”
-Alan November
But… the question is…
Do our students know how to
deal with the massive amounts of
information?
Have we changed our teaching
methods to reflect new
technology?
Do our students know how to
communicate globally?
Do our students understand how
to be self-directed and how to
organize their own learning?
“The fact is, our young people
are woefully under prepared
for the demands of today’s
workplace,”
said Ken Kay, President of the Partnership for
21st Century Skills
“We can’t solve problems by
using the same kind of thinking
we used when we created
them.”
- Albert Einstein
“How do we prepare our
students to become not only
readers and writers, but
editors and collaborators as
well?”
Will Richardson, 2006
The people who will collaborate,
create large storehouses of
information, learn about ourselves and
our world, change our relationship to
technology, and re-write the
paradigms of how things work will take
years to process. The people who will
understand this best are probable just
being born.
Dan Gillmor.
“What needs to change about
our curriculum when our
students have the ability to
reach audiences far beyond
our classroom walls?
Will Richardson, 2006
There is much reason to
believe their implementation
in schools will better prepare
students for a slew of new
illiteracies and competencies
in their post-education lives.
(Will Richardson, 2006)
The past 25 years in technology
have been the warm-up act. What
we are now entering is the MAIN
EVENT which is the era in which
technology will truly transform
every aspect of business,
government, education and society
of life.
( Carly Fiorina, former- CEO of HP)
What does it all mean?
Shift Happens.
Now you know . . .
MAKE IT HAPPPEN….
This year in the MIDDLETOWN
PUBLIC SCHOOLS!
Thanks to the following for
content, data and statistics:
Alan November
David Warlick
Thomas Friedman
Will Richardson
Ian Jukes
Chris Dede
Ray Kurzwell
Angus King
Milken Conference
Dan Schmidt
Karl Fisch –for the original Did You Know
Howie DiBlasi
Music:Used with permission: Last of the Mohicans! The Kiss;Elk Hunt
All music composed by Trevor Jones & Randy Edelman and Clannad..
Music by Trevor Jones for the 1992 drama movie. Released 11/13/2001 on the Morgan Creek label, catalog number 20015
Have a great school
year!!
Original Source
at the Milken Conference - http://www.milkeninstitute.org/events/events.taf?function=detail&ID=159&cat=GC&EventID=GC06
SamePresumably U.S. Department of Labor Report. Also on web http://www.fltimes.com/main.asp?SectionID=38&ArticleID=11301&SubSectionID=121
Presumably U.S. Department of Labor Report. Also on web at
http://capitol2.tlc.state.tx.us/psf/9_12_03/meeting/Ian%20Jukes/Ian%20Jukes%20Presentation.pdf#search=%22%221%20out%20of%202%20worker
s%22%22 referencing book Windows on the Future by Ian Jukes and Ted McCain.
Same.
Says Richard Riley was recently quoted in an article. Also on web at http://www.marquette.edu/magazine/winter06/frontier.shtml citing A 2004 book,
The Jobs Revolution: Changing How America Works
“2002 Annual Report for Nintendo Company, Ltd” Corporate Info Nentendo Company, Ltd. 27 Apr. 2003
<http://www.nintendo.com/corp/report/financialstatements_5-30-02.pdf>
“FY 2004 Budget for the United States Government” U.S. Department of Education U.S. Department of Education. 27 Apr. 2003
<http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/index.html>
Quotes Diana Farrell, head of the McKinsey Global Institute
http://www.thevirtualhandshake.com/blog/2006/06/23/shawn-gold-svp-myspace-marketing-in-a-networked-culture
Updated to 100 million – Fortune Magazine, 9-4-2006
Lots on the web including http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language
Lots on the web including http://www.princetoninfo.com/200405/40512c03.html
Cites Richard Wurman book – Information Anxiety
Cites UC Berkeley Study
Cites George Gilder
Some from George Gilder, some from Ray Kurzweil, some from ?
Don’t Know on the shipping number, the estimate is his .
Also http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0134.html?printable=1
Sourceand references
Web Search on population.
http://weblogg-ed.com/2006/more-musings-from-milken/
Former Maine Governor Angus King presentation http://web.mac.com/northeastleadership/iWeb/Angus_King/Podcast/A19C541A-7E2C-4BB3-A581-63EA068369CE.html
Web search on population, then did the math.
Ian Jukes – attended session at NECC, then downloaded http://ianjukes.com/infosavvy/education/handouts/fgtg.pdf
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/nlsoy.pdf among others
Ian Jukes – attended session at NECC, then downloaded http://ianjukes.com/infosavvy/education/handouts/fgtg.pdf
ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/news.release/History/tenure.09212004.news
Ian Jukes – attended session at NECC, then downloaded http://ianjukes.com/infosavvy/education/handouts/fgtg.pdf
Angus King Presentation - http://web.mac.com/northeastleadership/iWeb/Angus_King/Podcast/A19C541A-7E2C-4BB3-A58163EA068369CE.html
Web Search - http://www.websiteoptimization.com/bw/0607/
http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/2006/03/18/too-tired-to-blog/
Fortune Magazine 8-7-2006
Web Search - http://www.secretlair.com/index.php?/clickableculture/entry/myspace_stats_noted/
Web search Updated – 2.7 billion - http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2156461
Notes from NECC.
Ian Jukes – downloaded http://ianjukes.com/infosavvy/education/handouts/fgtg.pdf
Ian Jukes – NECC, then downloaded http://ianjukes.com/infosavvy/education/handouts/fgtg.pdf
Ian Jukes – NECC, then downloaded http://ianjukes.com/infosavvy/education/handouts/fgtg.pdf
Ian Jukes – NECC, then downloaded http://ianjukes.com/infosavvy/education/handouts/fgtg.pdf
Ian Jukes – NECC, then downloaded http://ianjukes.com/infosavvy/education/handouts/fgtg.pdf
Ian Jukes – NECC, then downloaded http://ianjukes.com/infosavvy/education/handouts/fgtg.pdf
Ian Jukes – NECC, then downloaded http://ianjukes.com/infosavvy/education/handouts/fgtg.pdf
Nicholas Negroponte Keynote at NECC (attended and took notes)
Ray Kurzweil book - The Singularity is Near - http://singularity.com/