Did You Know . . .

Lovejoy ISDDistrict Technology CommitteeNovember 3, 2008

Facebook was founded in 2004 and now four years later it has

over 120 000 000 active members

(users who have returned to the site in the last 30 days)

(November 2008)

The site is averaging 250 000 new registrations everyday

since January 2007

More than half of Facebook users are outside of college.

The fastest growing demographic is those 25 years

old or older

Facebook also averages more than 65 000 000 000,

…………that’s right 65 billion page views per month!

Overall, there are now more than 10 billion photos posted on Facebook. More than 30 million are uploaded daily (Nov 2008)

How much do you think a penguin is worth?

How about $350 000 000!!!

Which is what Disney Co. paid three young Canadian

businessmen for the rights to Club Penguin

Club Penguin now has over 15 000 000 members

Did you know . . .

YouTube serves 100 million videos per day.

10 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube every minute.

Do you know what YouTube is?

In Politics:U.S. Presidential Candidate Barack Obama’s YouTube

Channel has been viewed 18.5 million times

U.S. Presidential Candidate John McCain has 621,385 supporters

on Facebook and 218,464 on MySpace.

9 out of 10 people do not know what a Podcast is

Do you?

7 million American adults have listened to podcasts

There are 150,000 podcasts and subscribers are growing

@ 20 % per month

9 out of 10 people do not know what a Wiki is

Do you?

Did you know that Wikipedia contains over 10 250 000 articles

in 253 different languages?

8 out of 10 people do not know what a Blog is

Do you ?

There are over 70 million blogs and counting

The blogosphere is over 60 times bigger than it was

3 years ago.

There are now 240 000 000 registered MSN accounts

worldwide and they are being used in 60 countries and with

26 different languages

Fully half of all teens and 60% 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

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 Internet26% on TV21% telephone15% radio

Today's College Graduates have spent:

10 000 hours playing video games

20 000 hours watching TV and

over 20 000 hours on the phone

But have only spent 5000 hours reading and

11 000 hours attending school

Did you know . . .

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

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.

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 . . .

it still would have a labor surplus.

Did you know?

The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that today’s learner will have 10 to 14 jobs . . .

by age 38.

According to the Department of Labor . . .

1 out of 4 workers today is working for a company they

have been employed by for less than one year.

More than 1 out of 2 are working for a company they have worked

for less than five years.

The predicted top 10 in-demand jobs for 2010 will not have

existed in 2004.

Did you know . . .

The U.S. is 20thin the world in broadband Internet penetration (Luxembourg just passed us).

Nintendo invested more than $140 million in research and developmentin 2002 alone.

The U.S. federal government spent less than half as much on research and innovation in education.

1 of every 8 couples married in the U.S. last year met online.

There are over 106 million registered users of MySpace (as of Sept 2006).

MySpace adds 230 000 new users per day.

If MySpace were a country,it would be the 11th-largest in the world (between Japan and Mexico).

The average MySpace page is visited 30 times a day.

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.

The $100 laptop project is expecting to ship between 50

and 100 million laptops a year to children in underdeveloped

countries.

More than 75% of Canadian 4 year-olds have used a computer.

Over 70% of dollars spent on toys are for electronic games.

90% of all music downloaded from the Internet is done so

illegally

eBay has over 248 000 000 registered users worldwide

1 300 000 people use it as a primary or secondary

source of income

Revenue for eBay in first 2 quarters of 2008 was

$4 400 000 000

Predictions are that by 2013 a supercomputer will be built that

exceeds the computation capability of the Human

Brain . . .

By 2023, when 2nd-graders will be just 23 years old and beginning their (first) careers . . .

a $1,000 computer will exceed the computation capability of the

Human Brain . . .

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

daily.

It is 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 is estimated that 1.5 exabytes (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.

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

For students starting a four-year technical or college degree, this means that . . .

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

It is predicted to double every 72 hours by 2010.

What does it all mean?

Young people urgently need new skills to succeed in the global

economy.

For Careers Like:

Alternative Vehicle DeveloperBiometric Identification SpecialistData MinerExperimental Petrologist

AND Careers Like:

Robotics EngineerSpace ArchitectSustainability CoordinatorTeleport SpecialistWeather Modification PoliceWind Farmer

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.

Lovejoy ISDLovejoy ISD

District Technology CommitteeDistrict Technology Committee

November 3, 2008November 3, 2008