Fascinating Facts About the Changing World and Workforce
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Explore intriguing statistics and trends shaping the modern workforce and global landscape, from job diversity to technology's impact. Learn how education and preparation may evolve for tomorrow's opportunities.
Fascinating Facts About the Changing World and Workforce
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0 Did You Know . . .
0 If you’re one in a million in China . . .
0 There are 1,300 people just like you. http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/rankorder/2119rank.html
0 In India, there are 1,100 people just like you. http://www.medindia.net/patients/calculators/pop_clock.asp
0 The 25% of the population in China with the highest IQ’s . . .
0 Is greater than the total population of North America. http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/rankorder/2119rank.html
0 In India, it’s the top 28%. http://www.medindia.net/patients/calculators/pop_clock.asp
0 Translation:They have more honors kids than we have kids. http://www.childtrendsdatabank.org/pdf/53_PDF.pdf#search=%22number%20of%20children%20in%20United%20States%22
0 Did you know . . .
0 China will soon become the number one English speaking country in the world.
0 If you took every single job in the U.S. today and shipped it to China . . .
0 China would still have a labor surplus.
0 During the course of this 45 minute presentation . . .
0 • 540 babies will be born in the U.S. • 2196 babies will be born in China. • 3159 babies will be born in India.
0 The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that today’s learner will have 10-14 jobs . . .
0 By the age of 38.
0 According to the U.S. Department of Labor . . .
0 1 out of 4 workers today is working for a company he has been employed by for less than one year.
0 More than 1 out of 2 are working at their current job for less than 5 years.
0 The top 10 in-demand jobs in 2010 didn’t exist in 2004.
0 Question for educators:How do we prepare our students for 14 different jobs and several different careers?
0 We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist . . .
0 using technologies that haven’t been invented . . .
0 in order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet. David Warlick – Connect Learning blog
0 Question for Administrators?How do we do this?
0 Name this country . . .
0 • 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
0 England.
0 In 1900.
0 Do you perceive a trend?
0 Did you know . . .
0 There are over 100 million registered users of MySpace.(August 2006)
0 The average MySpace page is visited 30 times a day. . .
0 or 17,000 hits per second.
0 Did you know . . .
0 We are living in exponential times.
0 There are over 2.7 billion searches performed on Google each month…
0 which indexed 25 billion web pages in 2005
0 up from 25 million in 7 years earlier.
0 To whom were these questions addressed B.G.?(Before Google)
0 Question:When did the word “Google” become a verb?
0 The blogosphere doubles in size every 200 days http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000436.html
0 with 2 new blogs being created every second http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000436.html
0 and 1,116 bloggers posting every minute
0 The number of text messages sent and received every day exceeds the population of the planet.
0 At a cost of $50 billion in 2004.
0 By their 21st birthday, digital kids will have sent/received 250,000 emails/IMs . . .
0 spent 10,000 hours on the phone,
0 and watched 20,000 hours of TV (with 500,000 commercials).
Kids use electronic media 6.5 hours a day into which they pack 8.5 hours of exposure to that media. How?