Did you know?

Did you know/Shift Happens is a presentation created by Karl Fisch and Scott McLeod to show the viewers some startling statistics on technology and the world. To get to the presentation you can click here www.thefischbowl.blogspot.com/2007/06/did-you-know-20.html. The presentation has many interesting statistics about the United States and other emerging countries around the world like India and China. The number of college graduates in each country was quite surprising with the U.S. at 1.3 million, India at 3.1 million and China at 3.3 million. In India 100% of college graduates can speak English. In the technology realm right now MySpace, if it were made into a country, would be the 8th largest in the world. These are just some of the surprising numbers being presented in the movie.

I think that the main message of this presentation is that the world must start preparing its students and young people to be adept in technology. The message is especially talking about the United States. The message urges us as citizens of the United States to urge our educators, school board reps and politicians to take every measure necessary to get our children ready to compete globally with technology. I do agree with Mr. Fisch to an extent but the emphasis should not only be on technology but traditional learning as well. We do not want to breed a generation of robots, instead we need to create a generation of well rounded learners and human beings.