Opening Day Presentation to staff - September 2006

1. Welcome to Riverside . . . .
2006-07

2. Did you know . . .Did you know . . .

3. For this year’s grade 9’s . . .For this year’s grade 9’s . . .
the class of 2010 . . .the class of 2010 . . .

4. The Soviet Union has neverThe Soviet Union has never
existedexisted
There has always been only oneThere has always been only one
GermanyGermany
DNA has always been admissibleDNA has always been admissible
in courtin court
They are wireless, yet alwaysThey are wireless, yet always
connectedconnected

5. They grew up with and haveThey grew up with and have
outgrown faxing as a means ofoutgrown faxing as a means of
communicationcommunication
““Google” has always been aGoogle” has always been a
verbverb
Text messaging is their e-mailText messaging is their e-mail
They have rarely mailedThey have rarely mailed
anything using a stampanything using a stamp

6. Did you know . . .Did you know . . .

7. Riverside has added more than
100 computers
in the past year.

8. Riverside has 16 new LCD
projectors this fall.

9. More staff will use tablet
computers than use overheads –
we had 0 tablets just two years
ago

10. Riverside has a wireless network
being set up – the first school to
be retrofitted with it in the
district.

11. District wireless devices have
full access to the network
(Internet, file servers, and
printing).

12. Any student, teacher, parent,
community member will have
access to the Internet (but not
file servers or printers).

13. Did you know . . .

14. Sometimes size does matter.

15. If you’re one in a million in
China . . .

16. There are 1,300 people just
like you.

17. In India, there are 1,100
people just like you.

18. The 25% of the population in
China with the highest IQ’s . . .

19. Is greater than the total
population of North America.

20. In India, it’s the top 28%.

21. Translation for teachers:
They have more honours kids
than we have kids.

22. Did you know . . .

23. China will soon become the
number one English speaking
country in the world.

24. During the course of this 8
minute presentation . . .

25. • 6 babies will be born in Canada
• 244 babies will be born in China.
• 351 babies will be born in India.

26. Estimates are that today’s
learner will have 10-14 jobs . . .

27. By the age of 38.

28. More than 50% of all employees
are in a job they have held less
than 5 years.

29. The top 10 in-demand jobs in
2010 didn’t exist in 2004.

30. We are currently preparing
students for jobs that don’t yet
exist . . .

31. Using technologies that
haven’t been invented . . .

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

33. Name this country . . .

34. • 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

35. England.

36. In 1900.

37. Did you know . . .

38. Canada is 9th
in the world in
broadband Internet penetration.
(67.9% - December 2005)

39. 1 out of every 8 couples married
in North America last year met
online.

40. There are over 100 million
registered users of MySpace.
(August 2006)

41. The average MySpace page is
visited 30 times a day.

42. If MySpace were a country itIf MySpace were a country it
would be the 11would be the 11thth
largest in thelargest in the
world.world.

43. There are only 8 planets in theThere are only 8 planets in the
Solar SystemSolar System

44. Wikipedia is the onlyWikipedia is the only
encyclopedia that has thisencyclopedia that has this
informationinformation

45. Did you know . . .

46. We are living in exponential
times.

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

48. To whom were these questions
addressed B.G.?
(Before Google)

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

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

51. About 5 times as many as
during Shakespeare’s time.

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

53. Daily.

54. It’s estimated that a week’s
worth of New York Times . . .

55. Contains more information than
a person was likely to come
across in a lifetime in the 18th
century.

56. It’s estimated that 1.5 exabytes
(that’s 1.5 x 1018
) of unique new
information will be generated
worldwide this year.

57. That’s estimated to be more than
in the previous 5,000 years.

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

59. That means for a student
starting a four-year technical or
college degree . . .

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

61. It’s predicted to double every
72 hours by 2010.

62. Third generation fibre optics has
recently been separately tested
by NEC and Alcatel . . .

63. That pushes 10 trillion bits per
second down one strand of fibre.

64. That’s 1,900 CDs or 150 million
simultaneous phone calls every
second.

65. It’s currently tripling about every
6 months and is expected to do
so for at least the next 20 years.

66. The fibre is already there, they’re
just improving the switches on
the ends. Which means the
marginal cost of these
improvements is effectively $0.

67. 47 million laptops were
shipped worldwide last year.

68. The $100 laptop project is
expecting to ship between 50
and 100 million laptops a year to
children in underdeveloped
countries.

69. Predictions are that by 2013 a
supercomputer will be built that
exceeds the computation
capability of the Human
Brain . . .

70. By 2023, a $1,000 computer will
exceed the capabilities of the
Human Brain . . .

71. My 4-year old daughter Elizabeth
will be just 21 years old and
beginning her (first) career . . .

72. And while technical predictions
farther out than about 15 years
are hard to do . . .

73. Predictions are that by 2049 a
$1,000 computer will exceed the
computational capabilities of the
human race.

74. What does it all mean?

75. As Al Gore says in his recent
book and movie:
Change is inconvenient

76. But we are leading the
change in schools and it is
going to continue to be
incredibly exciting.