Monday, September 1, 2008

Did You Know?

I have mixed feelings about the presentation. I felt it had a lot of numbers and a lot of statistics but it was too pollyanna, too sugar-coated. The presentation brought up international population growths but failed to connect it to how we can bridge the gap between nations via the internet. 100% of India's college graduates speak English (by the way, English is their 'National Language'!) yet they fail to elaborate on percentage of NON-college grads in India (95.7%.) If Myspace was a country it would be the 8th largest in the world. But how many people currently using Myspace are not from the US?

Towards the end of the presentation, it asked some important questions regarding our children's education (and our own) for the 21st century. Are our children being tought computer literacy in schools? What is being done? However, the most important question that the video left out was "HOW can we achieve this?" I would have liked to seen a list of resources that could help anser this question.

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