During the course of this presentation…

2. During the course of this presentation…

3. 15 babies will be born in the UK 1 in 4 will have some sort of mental health problem during their life

4. It is estimated that…

5. 1 in 4 workers today is working for a company they have been employed by for less than a year

6. Today’s learner will have 10 – 14 jobs ……. By the age of 38

7. According to former US secretary of education Richard Riley….

8. The top ten in demand jobs today …… did not exist in 2004

9. We are currently preparing students for jobs that do not yet exist

10. Using technologies that have not yet been invented

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

12. The world is changing…

14. In the UK, 98% of 12 year-olds want “to do well at school”

15. And yet, only 38%look forward to going to school

16. According to BBC News, a new blog is created ….every second

17. There are 130 million active users of Facebook

18. If Facebook were a country, it would be the 10th largest in the world (between Russia and Japan)

19. The average Facebook page is visited 30 times a day

20. 1.4 million UK pupils have their own web page

21. We are changing…

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

24. To whom were these questions addressed before Google?

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

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

27. About 5 x as many as during Shakespeare’s time

28. More than 3,000 new books are published every day

29. It is estimated that a week’s worth of the Times …

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

31. It is estimated that 40 exabytes (4.0 x 1019) of unique new information will be generated worldwide this year

32. That is more than in the previous 5,000 years

33. The amount ofnew technical information isdoublingevery 2 years

34. By 2010, it is predicted to double every 72 hours

35. For students starting a three-year university degree, this means that . .

36. …half of what they learn in their first year of study will be outdated …. By the end of their studies !!!!

37. Technology is changing…

39. Third generation fibre optics have recently been tested that carry 10 trillion bits per second down a single strand of fibre

41. That is 1,900 CDs or 150 million phone calls every second !!!

42. It is currently tripling every 6 months and is expected to do so for the next 20 years

43. 47 million laptops were shipped worldwide last year

44. 7 out of ten teenagers have a handheld games machine

45. 84% of young people play computer games at least once a fortnight…

46. 9 out of 10 teenagers have a ….. home computer ….. mobile phone AND ….. games console

47. ……. 72% of teachers never play computer games

48. Predictions are that by 2013 a supercomputer will be built that exceeds the computation capability of the human brain

49. AND that by 2049 …… a £500 computer will exceed the computational capabilities ……. of the entire human species

50. What does all this mean?