The following video shows many statistics about how technology is changing the world. You are a new generation of students who has a greater responsibility in the world than any other generation previous. In addition, you now have more tools than any generation before you. Here is how they're developing.
Respond to this video and consider how technology is changing the world. Also, as students, what do you envision schools could do to help you prepare for these great changes in the twenty-first century?
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An eye-opening video that has amazing statistics on the world and what is happening around us. This blog is one example of how students can become better prepared for the new future.
i thinkit was really amazing how 1 in 8 couples meet online and there are some 50,000 english words and there were double that in shakespears time! i think it is so cool that we have tecnology, but the question is should it run our world and know more then the ones that created them?
Sarah, you pose an interesting question about whether or not technology should run our world. It's an odd thought that we, as humans, are actually capable of creating something that has better computation abilities than the entire human race combined. What problems do you think might occur if technology continues to exceed the abilities of human beings?
Be sure to check your spelling and grammar before you post. Also, your facts need to be correct before you publish. There are actually over 500,000 words in the English language, which is far above 50,000.
Although I have seen this video a couple of times, I always seem to take away something new. Today the geographic themes that run through this video jumped out at me: population growth, location, cultural universals such as language...
It is true, "Without Geography, you're nowhere."
I am amazed at how technology has changed already in my lifetime. When I was in school, we found answers in hard-cover encyclopedias, and often that information was outdated. When we say, "The world is at our fingertips," it's true. Our job is to help facilitate the love of inquiry and help students use what is available to them.
Mrs. Lang, my middle school experience was very much like the school experience you describe. The internet was still considered "out there" and most people had a misunderstood idea about what the internet even was. By high school, each student in my class had an email account maintained by the school staff. I thought, by the time I started teaching, all students and most staff would have online accounts of some kind and far greater knowledge of internet tools.
I was shocked to hear about the many changes that are occuring in the world. An example is that if myspace was a country it would have the fourth highest population in the world. It is also wierd to think that the computer is becoming more of a source than the actual brain. People are going to have to adapt to the new changes.
Kallen, you use specific examples from the video and relate them to our lives with significant insight. Please be sure to recheck your facts before writing them in a comment. Myspace would actually be the eighth largest country in the world by population.
I found it interesting that we only have 1.3million collage graduates in the United States and that is 2.0million less than China and 1.8million less that India. Plus there is only one baby being born every seconds in the United States where in China three more are born and four more are born in India is that a sign that in the U.S. from 2006 when we had less college graduates that the Economy was starting to get bad? Or was it just that people in the United States don’t care so much about education as other people in places like India and China? Also if the Economy was getting bad was it just too expensive to have a kid? Or did people finally start to notice the over population in the United States? Also is the job loss because of people quitting or is it because of companies wanting to move to Mexico so it costs less to make the product and in turn they get more money. But with the job loss in the U.S. people won’t be able to buy the product because they have no money. It seems like instead of fixing the poor economy in the U.S. we are feeding it and it is becoming even more of a problem. And now even to add to that we are now even more lazy than ever before. Did we forget that we have a world that keeps us alive and it depends on us and are we just going to sit on our bottoms and let it fade into a distant memory letting technology take’s place? I now notice the world really is changing.
This video really made me think about our way of living should we really be always living the moment or should we prepare for the future and prepare for this changes and the problems and complications that come with it. Should we let these computers be able to excede the knowledge of the human race? How will we build somthing with more knowledge that the creator itself? Will this new future help us solve or current problems or will it just create more? This video made me really think about these things and the possible answers.
Rhonda, you do a fantastic job of making this video relevant to our lives even two years after its original publication. You ask some very important and difficult questions that I can't even answer myself. I can tell you spent some time really considering the meaning of this video's message, and you even related it to some of what you've learned in geography. Great work!
I can totally believe that myspace could be the eighth largest country in the world because a lot of people log on all the time. It's kind of unnerving to think that a lot of couples have met online because they need to go out and socialize. I think that after all, we are developing the computer world but it seems more like the computers are developing us. It's good sometimes but the amount of text messages, tv time, and internet use is scary because we need to physically express ourselves, instead of typing it out.
This video really made me think about the world and what is happening all around us. I never imagined that there were 600,000,000 Internet users in 2006. And that’s amazing that 1 out of 8 couples marry met online. I think having technology is a good thing to have, because it makes life easier and more efficient. But how do machines get smarter then their creators? I wonder if they learn like the human brain and do they think like the human brain? Will technology over come our own knowledge?
My jaw dropped and eyes widened as when I heard that the number of text messages sent in a day excedes the number of people on the planet! All these amazing facts make me wonder what it will be like two or three years from now.
Frank, you pose an interesting question about the possibility of machines learning. Is it possible that humans could program machines to be reflective and to learn from their mistakes like human beings do? If we could, do you think machines might eventually reflect on their mistakes and learn faster than typical humans?
I think it is amazing how that many people use instant messaging and how many couples meet online. it is wierd that 4 year olds have computers and that India and China have that many more kids than the U.S.A. It would be the wierdest thing in the world to me to meet somebody that is 8 years younger than me and have had a computer when they were 4. And lastly it is wierd to know that the U.S.A. is not the most developed country.
This movie was amazing I learnd more info in the movie than I had in two weeks. This video really made me think about how big the world is and it tells how much we depend on the internet.
The video was really interesting. I was really surprised that if myspace were a country it would be the 8th largest in the world. It makes me think about how many people there actually are in the world. It’s kind of weird that in like twenty years that Chinas people will all speak English. I think its kind of surprising that about 34 kids were born each minute. Also one out of 8 couples met each other on the internet.
Brandon’s letter
I was shocked by the video because it has showed me how far technology has come In the past couple years and I think that its amazing how much we use it. I can’t believe how many “myspace” users there are, Uh yeah there’s enough to make the 8th largest country in the world. SCARY!!!
The video was really good and interesting. I did not like it when the USA was always the worst or least in everything. For example it was the lowest out of the three in education, I wish I would be the most educated county. I thought it was weird that every China grad. new English by the time they graduated collage. It was surprised when it said if my space were a country it would be the eighth largest in the world. I thought it was interesting when they said one out of eight couples met on the Internet. I don’t think I would be one of those eight couples it would be way to weird to meet on the Internet.
That video was really amazing and the facts were so hard to believe. I really thought the itunes and my space numbers were amazing. I also didn’t like the online marriage fact. How do people know who they are talking to, because anyone could go online and lie about themselves. But the video was neat and it opened my eyes to what is happening in the world.
I took many things from this video, and everything amazed me. I found it interesting that there is tons of new technologies being made every day. It got me thinking about how no matter how cool something new is, there is always going to be something new, and cooler to replace it. In only a small amount of time, too. Also, that technology is almost ruling the way we think and do things. If it continues how will this affect our future?
Marisa, your response is great. There is a thought in the technology world called Moore's Law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law) that says something along the lines that computers and technology will continue to double in speed and processing every two years while the cost will divide in half in that same amount of time. It makes a person wonder if he or she should buy new, expensive technology if something better and cheaper will arrive within two years.
As for your question, it seems that technology is here to stay, and we will have no choice but to learn to use it and use it well in order to succeed.
I think its amazing that the amount of text messages sent each day exceed the worlds population. Another thing that astounds me is that 21 year old people have sent/received 250,000 emails! Who has the time to send/respond to that many e-mails! I think that technology is one of the greatest evolutions in the world. The easiest way to prepare schools for 21st century tech. is mainly to keep up grading to the newest things out there.
This video is just amazing, but I wonder what the statistics would be like for today. The main thing that I had to think about was, what will it be like for them, meaning the new babies that come into this world at the rate of about 34 per 8 seconds. The second thing that I had to stop, reread and think about was “that we are currently preparing students for jobs and technologies that don’t yet exist… in order to solve problems we don’t even know exist yet.” What will become a problem? I think that it is so great that kids in other countries, who don’t have the chance to go to school or get a good education can still learn and communicate with the new type of laptop.
I was amazed that if myspace were a country it would be the 8th largest county in the world. I also thought back on how much i learned about the past and thought about now, is that we have developed a whole lot more technology and more and more kids are learning now in elementary school, middle school and high school what our parents learned in high school themselves and in college. Which this is very impressive and i never would've thought that we were learnig things that would be involved in future jobs so that we would have a better future.
I thought it was cool how they had all that information like how many babies were born just now and how many people visit you tube and my space. I wonder what will happen in the world in these next few decades. I thought it was a sweet video with cool information.
I thought the movie was very interesting because technology is changing the world and nobody is paying much attention to the changes that are occurring. I can’t believe that if MySpace was its own country it would be the 8th largest in the world! Also, 21 year-olds have played over 10,000 hours of video games, talked over 20,000 hours on the phone, and received/sent 250,000 emails or text! When I heard that I wondered how much the numbers will go up when my generation turns 21, especially because there are new ideas for technology? I hope the world will keep on inventing new technology that will help us out but, technology can’t take over the world! We need to be in control with how much technology there is and how much time we spend on it. There is still plenty to do without technology but some ideas will make life better!
I found the video really interesting! Its really cool to think that if myspace was its own country that it would be the 8th largest country in the world. This really shows me how our country has developed over the years. If we start teaching all us kids how to work with computers and electronics we should be ready for whatever the future brings. Over the years a lot of people have taken advantage of all the devices we have now but if we use the electronics the right way they can bring us some good information.
Hailey, you bring up some very interesting points about technology--especially that it is a double-edged sword. It has elements that can really help us, but at the same time, it has other elements that cannot be left uncontrolled. Your generation will really have to help the older generations rethink certain ideas about our world. For instance, technology grants us access to important information, some of which is very private; what happens if someone in the United States gets access to important information from a person living in China by using the internet, and by doing so, the person in the United States breaks a Chinese law, but does not break any laws in the United States; is the act illegal? Whose laws should we follow in a global community?
I think it is cool how many people have cell phones. It is amazing that a lot of people use instant messaging. it is weird that china has two million more collage graduates than us.
My jaw dropped and eyes widened as when I heard that the number of text messages sent in a day excedes the number of people on the planet! All these amazing facts make me wonder what it will be like two or three years from now.
I thought this video was interesting becouse of all the aim users there are in the world that it would make up a continent. I also thought that it was cool that 1 in 8 coupols meet online.
I think that the video is a very eye opening video because it shows how the world is changing and how fast technology is changing due to humans helping it along. I also think that because there is a lot of new data coming up every day that there is going to be a never ever ending flow of information that is going to be stored on the internet. I also think that the next generation after us is going to be way better off than us for these things
This video made me think about some things like, if machines get smarter than their creators, will they grow their own personalities? Will they build themselves; will they team up over the Internet and rebel? Or will it go smoothly and the machines work for us? There are many possibilities of what will go wrong but many people think that the advances in technology is worth the risk and so do I, but let me pose a interesting question in the future will there be computer schools, jails, and possibly behavior classes.
I think that the video is very interesting because in 2006, 100% of college graduates in India speak English, and I thought they only spoke Indian but they speak both languages. I didn’t know that 1 in 4 workers has been with their current employer less than one year. Many of today’s college majors didn’t exist 10 years ago. I realized that 21-year olds watched 20,000 hours of TV, played 10,000 hours of video games, talked 10,000 hours on the phone, and they’ve sent/received 250,000 emails or instant messages. I thought we had used more than about 40,000 hours of video games or whatever that has been used. What’s also interesting is that more than 50% of U.S. 21-year olds have created content on the web. There was more than 2.7 billion searches performed on Google. Nearly 2 billion children live in developing countries. One in three never completes fifth grade. I think that in the future, things should be a whole lot better in school and two in three should be completed by now. In 2005, the One Laptop per Child Project (OLPC) set out to provide laptops to these children. I never knew that these children could get laptops to help them learn and to be smarter for their education, and I wish that we children could have our own laptops instead our parents buying us laptops. I thought that China is the richest in the world, had the largest military, has the strongest education system, and that they have the highest standard of living.
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