- 2,272 texts are sent by the average teen per month
- In February 2008 Barack Obama attended no campaign fundraisers. He did out do his opponent in campaign fundraising by using social networking to raise $55 million in 29 days. John McCain earned $11 million in the traditional fashion.
- The computer in your cell phone today is one million times cheaper, one thousand times more powerful, and one hundred times smaller than the one computer at MIT in 1965. What used to fit in a building now fits in your pocket, what fits in your pocket now will fit in a blood cell in 25 years.
- Source: "Did you know" video (links below)
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ReplyDeleteSome interesting talking points from the version six video of "Did you know":
ReplyDeleteWe are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t exist yet, using technologies that haven’t been invented, in order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet
12 billion Google searches per month- to whom were these questions addressed before Google?
As educators some questions we should be asking ourselves and our school districts are: How are you using social networking and other technologies in the classroom? What do our students gain and lose with this shift? How does the way in which we educate students need to shift in order to prepare them for these jobs that don't even exist yet. What skills might the need to have and how do we help them obtain them? What is our role in this?
This is great, Carrie. I like that you pointed out a few key points, particularly the one about the 2008 election. I don't realize that fact and it is pretty astounding and really demonstrates the power of social media!
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