The document discusses how population sizes and rates of information growth are rapidly changing around the world. It notes that the top 25% of China's population by IQ is larger than the entire population of North America. It also states that the rate of new information being generated doubles every two years, and will double every 72 hours by 2010, meaning much of what students learn early in their college careers will be outdated by graduation.

1. Did you know . . .

2. Sometimes size does matter.

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

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

5. In India, there are 1,100 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. In India, it’s the top 28%.

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

10. Did you know . . .

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

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

13. China would still have a labor surplus.

14. During the course of this presentation . . .

16. Did you know that today’s learner will have 10-14 jobs . . .

17. By the age of 38.

18. Did you know . . .

19. 1 out of 4 workers today is working for a company they have been employed by for less than one year.

20. More than 1 out of 2 are working for a company they have worked for less than five years.

21. Did you know…

22. The top 10 in-demand jobs in 2010 didn’t exist in 2004.

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

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

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

26. Name this country . . .

28. Great Britain

29. In 1900.

30. Did you know . . .

31. Did you know…

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

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

34. There are 22000 schools involved in collaborative projects in Europe (through Etwinning)

35. Did you know . . .

36. We are living in exponential times.

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

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

39. The number of text messages sent and received every day exceeds the population of the planet.

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

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

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

43. Daily.

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

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

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

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

48. That means for a student starting a four-year technical or college degree . . .

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

50. It’s predicted to double every 72 hours by 2010.

51. Did you know…

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

53. My son Raj will be just 25 years old and beginning his (first) career . . .

54. What does it all mean?

55. Shift Happens.

56. Now you know . . .