Did you know? 5.0 Iowa
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IOWA Did you Know?
In the begining there was the land
we came, we settled
we built farms, families, and factories
We built schools that would last a century
(good thing)
We build a STATE
and a NATION
but our WORLD didn't stay still
We fought in WARS
We moved to CITIES
Our farms CONSOLIDATED
and our towns SHRANK
We invented digital computers
right here in IOWA!
This changed EVERYTHING
Jobs moved overseas
Our lives became more WIRED
and before most of us realized,
it was a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT world
Did You Know?
Today we live in exponential times
1, 2,3,4,5,6,7 BILLION people on the planet
and 1,2,3,4,5 BILLION mobile phones
Today more people have acces to a mobile phone
than a CLEAN TOILET
25% of American households
have ONLY a cell phone
2 BILLION people are on the Internet
750 MILLION are on Facebook
that's just over 1 IN 9 people worldwide
There are 200 MILLION people on Twitter
sending 100 MILLION tweets per day
If Facebook and Twitter were countries...
They'd rank 3rd and 6th in population
35 HOURS of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute
That equals 176.000 full-length Hollywood releases
EVERY WEEK
29% of all people under 25
get all or most of their TV ONLINE
Kindle books now outsell hardbacks and paperbacks COMBINED on Amazon
Did You Know?
Wikipedia contains 3.6 MILLION articles
in ENGLISH alone
Flickr users have uploaded 5 BILLION pictures
and Facebook?
50 BILLION
92% of American children have online presence by the time they are 2 YEARS OLD
In 2008 Corey Menscher´s baby tweeted from the womb!
80 MILLION Americans are expected to own an iPad by 2015
Mobile app downloads 2009, 300 MILLION
2010, 5 BILLION
and ANGRY BIRDS downloads?
250 MILLIONS
The amount of digital information worldwide will increase 44x between now and 2020
Information overload?
247 BILLION emails are sent every day
Unfortunately 80% are spam or viruses
6.1 trillion text messages were sent last year >:-0
87% of all teenagers text
They send an average of 3,339 per month
Did You Know?
Iowa is struggling to keep up
POP QUIZ We´re losing our jobs to:
a) machinery b)computers c)other states d)other countries
e) ALL OF THE ABOVE
Total percentage of high school graduates?
WE RANK 8th!
But in 7 years, 62% of Iowa jobs will require POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION
Yet only 25% of Iowans have a Bachelor´s degree; nationally that´s 37TH
Only 8% of Iowans have a graduate degree and that ranks 43rd
HOW DO WE RANK IN THESE CRITICAL GROWTH AREAS?
Percentage of high tech jobs? 35th New business incubation? 35th
Percentage of scientists a engineers? 37th High speed internet acces per capita? 41st
Entrepreneurical activity? 49th
Did You Know?
Our SCHOOLS are struggling to keep up too
We have 200,000 fewer students than in 1972
80% of high school student´s daily classroom study is LOW-LEVEL MENTAL WORK
The kind of stuff you can find online in 5 seconds
The average fifth grader receives 5x the instruction in basic skills versus problem-solving or reasoning
By 2019, about half of high school courses are projected to be ONLINE
Right now, Iowa ranks 40th in K-12 online enrollment
We spend less on school technology than we did...
We spend less on school technology than we did...
A DECADE AGO
We´ve got some BIG CHOICES to make
Do we bemoan our past or roll up our sleeves AND GET TO WORK?
Do we get intimidated by these new demands or DO WE
RE DESIGN?
RE TRAIN?
RE BUILD?
44 Iowa school districts are giving their kids laptops and RETHINKING their classrooms
Next year it will be closer to 100!
46 Iowa high schools are now using the same virtual reality software as aerospace engineers
And schools all across the state are focusing on critical thinking and problem-solving
rather than LOW-LEVEL factual recall
Is YOUR local school one of them?
How and what we teach HAS TO CHANGE
Today´s classroom looks a lot like one from 1890
But it´s 2011
IOWA WE CAN DO THIS!
We led the way in agriculture and manufacturing
NOW IT´S TIME TO LEAD AGAIN
It´s the 21st CENTURY We must prepare our students for their future, not our past
SHIFT happens
Will our schools SHIFT?
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Transcribed and translated by Israel Martínez-Franco