Educating for Tomorrow’s Needs
The video below is a real eye-opener about where we are and where we need to go, relative to educating ourselves and our children. It’s worth 7 minutes to watch it.
Below are some facts from the video.
- The 25% of the Chinese population with the highest I.Q.’s is a greater number than the entire population of North America. In India, it’s the top 28%. They have more Honor Kids than we have kids!
- China will soon become the number one English-speaking country in the world.
- If you shipped to China every single job in the U.S. today, they’d still have a labor surplus.
- China Mobile has more cellphone customers (301 million) than the U.S. has people.
- 1 out of 4 U.S. workers today has been with their employer for less than one year.
- More than half of U.S. workers today have been with their employer less than 5 years.
- 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 yet been invented, in order to solve problems we don’t yet know are problems.
- The U.S. is only 20th in the world in broadband availability. 19 other countries have more broadband access than we do.
- 1 out of every 8 couples married in the U.S. last year met online.
- There are over 2.7 billion searches performed on Google each month.
- The number of text messages sent and received every day exceeds the number of the population of this planet.
- More than 3,000 new books are published daily.
- It’s estimated that a week’s worth of the New York Times contains more information than a person was likely to come across in an entire lifetime in the 18th century.
- It’s estimated that more new information will be generated worldwide this year than was done in the past 5,000 years.
- The amount of new technical information is now doubling every 2 years. It’s predicted to double every 72 hours by 2010.
- It’s been predicted that by 2013 a supercomputer will be built that exceeds the computation capability of the human brain.
- We need to teach our students to deal with a massive amount of information.
- We need to teach our students global communication, beginning in Kindergarten.
- Have we changed our teaching methods to reflect the new technology?
- “Our young people are woefully under prepared for the demands of today’s workplace.” — 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
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