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[转]Did You Know… (vi)

July 29th, 2008 天照

53 Million American Adults (44%) of Internet users used the Internet to publish,respond,post photos,share files and content
5.3千万美国的成年人(占全部成年人比重44%)使用互联网来发布、回复信息,发送照片,分享文件和其它内容。

American teenagers today are utilizing the interactive capabilities of the Internet as they create and share their own media creations…
今天,美国的年轻人已经能够使用互联网来创作和分享他们的媒体作品

Fully half of all teens and 57% of teens who use the Internet could be considered Content Creators
超过一半的年轻人(57%)是互联网内容的创作者

They have created a blog,wiki or webpage,posted original artwork,photography,stories or videos online
他们在线创建博客、维基或者网页,发布独创的艺术作品、照片、故事或视频

Millions of amateur reporters now have their own digital printing press.They are editors who blog.(Pein 2005)
数百万的业余记者通过他们自己的博客来发布报道

There are over 70 million blogs and counting,1,000,000(million) posts each day on the blogs
全世界有超过7千万的博客,每天发布1百万篇文章

The blogosphere is over 60 times bigger than it was 3 years ago.
现在博客的规模是3年前的60倍

8 out of 10 people do not know what a Blog is…Do you?
每10个当中有8个不知道什么是博客…你呢?

“How do we prepare our students to become not only readers and writers,but editors and collaborators as well?” Will Richardson,2006
“我们应该如何使我们的学生不仅仅成为阅读者和作者,同时成为编辑者和合作者呢?”

“What needs to change about our curriculum when our students have the ability to reach audiences far beyond our classroom wall?” Will Richardson,2006
“当我们学生拥有很强的能力以至于课堂教学已经不能满足他们的求知欲时,我们该如何改变我们的课程设置?”

“There is much reason to believe their implementation in schools will better prepare students for a slew of new illiteracies and competencies in their posteducation lives.” Will Richardson,2006
“我们有充分的理由相信这些新措施将会更好地帮助学生们在今后的学习生涯中获得学习新知识和技能的能力。”

There are people who will collaborate,create large storehouses of information,and change our relationship to technology,and rewrite the paradigms of how things work.They are just being born. Dan Gillmor
这些人将会创造出大量的信息、通过技术手段改变我们的关系并且重新制定事物的运行方式…而这些人仅仅才出生不久。

Today’s students may not be well suited to the more linear progression of learning that most educators employ. Mark Prensky
现在的学生将不再于如教授所希望的那般适合对线型研究。

China has 17 million blogs*
中国有1.7千万的博客

35% of all internet users in China have a BLOG….
* The Blog Herald2006
35%的中国网民拥有一个博客

Read/Write Web tools have relevance to state and local core content curriculum standards. Will Richardson,2006
使用网络工具进行读写已经成为部分地区的核心课程标准

9 out of 10 people do not know what a WiKi is…Do you?
10个人当中有9个不知道什么是维基…你呢?

9 out of 10 do not know what a Podcast is…Do you?
10个人当中有9个不知道什么是播客…你呢?

6 million American adults have listened to podcasts
6百万个美国成年人听过播客

There are 100,000 podcasts and subscribers are growing @ 20% per month
目前有十万博客并且每月增长20%

What the average teen is doing outside of school on an average day:
一般的年轻人每天是如何分配校外时间的:

6.5 hours with media outside of school:
6.5小时的课外时间
33% of on the Internet
33%用于上网
26% onTV
26%用于看电视
21% telephone
21%用于打电话
15% radio
15%用于听收音机

81% of students have email accounts
81%的学生拥有电子邮箱账户
75% of students have IM (Instant messenger accounts)
75%的学生拥有即时通讯软件账户
97% of students believe technology use is very important in education
97%的学生相信技术对于教育有重要的作用

The fastest growing age group for using the Internet is … 25 years olds NetDay News,2005
增长最快的互联网使用者年龄组是2-5岁的孩子

YouTube serves 100 million videos per day.
YouTube每天播放一亿个视频

……served 2.5 billion videos to nearly 20 million unique visitors in June of 2006.
……拥有25亿视频提供给近2千万访问者(6,2006)

Do you know what YouTube is?
你知道什么是YouTube吗?

Sometimes size does matter.
有时候量变会产生质变

If you’re one in a million in China…
如果你在中国属于百万分之一的人群

There are 1,300 people just like you.
那里将有1,300个类似于你的人

In India,there are 1,100 people just like you.
在印度则有1,100个类似于你的人

The 25% of the population in China with the highest IQ’s…
在中国前25%智商最高的人..

Is greater than the total population of North America.
人数超过整个北美洲的人口(美国+加拿大)

In India,it’s the top 28%.
在印度,这些人属于前28%

Translation for teachers:They have more honors kids than we have kids.
对于我们的教师意味着:他们拥有的优秀学生,比我们全部的学生还多

Did you know…
你知道吗?

China will soon become the number one English speaking country in the world.
中国将成为世界上最大的英语使用国

If you took every single job in the U.S. today and shipped it to China…
如果将现在美国每一个工作都转包给中国…

China would still have a labor surplus.
中国仍旧存在劳动力过剩的问题

China Mobile is the world’s largest cellular company…
中国移动是全世界最大的公司…

They have over 301 million customers…
它拥有超过301兆用户…

Translation…..China has more cell phones than the U.S. has people*…….
这意味着…中国拥有的手机比美国拥有的人还多…

Your CPA has outsourced doing your taxes to India to accounting graduates that work for $100 a month…
从印度毕业的注册会计师可以每月只为100美金工作…

Message to Americans…”Mama don’t let your kids grow up to be accountants”.
对美国人来说…“最好不要让你的孩子成为会计师”。

During the course of this presentation…
60 babies will be born in U.S.
244 babies will be born in China.
351 babies will be born in India.
在播放这部影片的同时…
有60个孩子出生在美国
244个孩子出生在中国
351个孩子出生在印度

The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that today’s learner will have 1014 jobs…
By the age of 38…
美国劳工部估计现在的学生在换第10~14个工作时,他们只有38岁…

Where are all the workers?
那么全世界的工人呢?

Factory worker in Ho Chi Minh City make $62 a month
胡志明市的工厂工人每月工资62美元

A teacher in Beijing,China makes $454 a month
北京的教师每月工资545美元

A nurse in Beijing,China makes $260 a month
北京的护士每月工资260美元

41% of companies around the world are having trouble hiring the people they need
41%的公司在世界范围雇佣他们所需的员工

Help Wanted:
要说明的是:

Where the labor shortage is highest*
哪里是老公短缺最严重的地区?

Mexico:82%
墨西哥:82%
Japan:61%
日本:61%
U.S.:41%
美国:41%
Canada:36%
加拿大:36%
Europe:31%
欧洲:31%
China:19%
中国:19%
India:9%
印度:9%

SlowdownWhat slowdown?
经济减缓——什么导致了经济减缓?

U.S. companies make more and more of their investments overseas.
美国公司把越来越多的钱投资于海外

Steven R.Appleton:CEO of Micron:
Steven R.Appleton(微米公司CEO)说:

“I don’t have to hire one more person in the U.S….I don’t have to invest one more dollar here and we will be just fine”*
我无法再在美国多雇佣一个员工…我无法在美国再多投资一美元,只有这样公司才能继续生存

According to former Secretary of Education Richard Riley…
美国前教育部长Richard Riley认为…

The top 10 indemand jobs in 2010 didn’t exist in 2004.
在2010年最热门的工作是2004年所不存在的

We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist…
我们需要教导孩子使他们毕业后投入现在还不存在的工作中…

Using technologies that haven’t been invented…
使用现在还未被发明的技术…

In order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet.
解决我们现在还不知道的问题。

Did you know…
你知道吗?

The U.S. is 20th in the world in broadband Internet penetration.
美国是全世界网络覆盖率排名第20的国家

(Luxembourg just passed us.)
(卢森堡刚刚超过我们)

Europe Blows away the US and Asia in Network Readiness Index:
世界各国的网络便捷指数:

#1.Denmark
1.丹麦
#2.Sweden
2.瑞典
#3.Singapore
3.新加坡
#5.Switzerland
5.瑞士
#6.Netherlands
6.荷兰
#7.US
7.美国

“In 2010 accessible online data is expected to approach a Yottabyte……,or 1 trillion terabytes.”
在2010年,网络数据将达到1尧字节(YB)…或者说是一兆位
(yoyya septillions 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000)
(1YB=1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000B)

There are over 100 million registered users of My Space.(December:2006)
06年12月,MySpace拥有1亿注册用户

The average My Space page is visited 30 times a day.
MySpace的每个网页平均每天被访问30次

MySpace users call up an average of 31.5 billion unque page views per monthyes
31.5 BILLION
MySpace的用户们平均每月访问31.5亿个网页——没错,31.5亿

MySpace page views were up 79% in April 2007
MySpace的访问量在07年4月增长了79%

41% of the traffic comes from people over 35
其中41%的访问者年龄超过35岁

We are living in exponential times.
我们生长在一个指数增长的年代

There are over 2.7 billion searches performed on Google each month.
Google每月要处理超过27亿的搜索请求

To whom were these questions addressed B.G.?(Before Google)
在Google出现之前我们如何寻找这些答案?

The number of text messages sent and received every day exceeds the population of the planet.
每天传送的本文信息超过了我们这个星球的总人口

More than 1,442 new books are published …..Daily.
每天有超过1,442本新书出版

It’s estimated that 1.5 exabytes(that’s 1.5*10^18) of unique new information will be generated worldwide this year.
预计今年全球将产生1.5艾(1.5*10^18)的新信息

That’s estimated to be more than in the previous 5,000 years.
这些信息的数量大于过去5000年所产生信息的总和

The amount of new technical information is doubling every 2 years.
新的技术信息每2年翻一番

That means for a student starting a fouryear technical or college degree…
这意味着当一个学生进行4年的学习生涯时…

Half of what they learn in their first year of study will be outdated by their third year of study.
第一年所学的一半知识将在第三年被淘汰

It’s predicted to double every 72 hours by 2010.
预计这个折旧速率在2010年将变成每72小时

NEC and Alcatel…Developed new fiber optics that will push 10 trillion bits per second down one strand of fiber.
NEC和Alcatel公司发明的新式光纤可以每秒传输10兆位数据

That’s 150 million simultaneous phone calls every second.
也就是说每秒可以传输1.5亿个电话

“Young People Urgently Need New Skills to Succeed in the Global Economy”
年轻人需要新的技能以便在全球经济中生存

Technology has become an indispensable tool in the education of today’s students. NetDay
对于现在的学生来说,技术已经成为一项必不可少的教育工具

Students think differently than us..they develop hypertext minds…they leap around..their cognative structures are parallel not sequential. Mark Prenskey
学生们的思维方式不同于我们…他们擅长发散性思维…他们喜欢跳跃性思维…他们的思维结构是并行的而非线性的。

“We need to emphasized the necessity of students learning with others around the world and stress that 3 skills are needed to teach our children.”
我们必须加强培养学生以下三种能力:

1.”We need to teach our students to deal with massive amounts of information.”
Do our students know how?
1.我们需要教会学生如何处理巨量的信息
我们的学生知道怎么做吗?

2.”We need to teach our students global communication,starting with Kindergarten.”
Do our students know how?
2.我们需要教会学生全球化的沟通方式,从幼儿园开始
我们的学生知道怎么做吗?

3.”We need to teach out students to be selfdirected and understand how to organize more and more of their own learning.”
Do our students know how?
3.我们需要教会学生自我教育,并使他们了解如何组织学习更多的自主学习
我们的学生知道怎么做吗?

Have we changed our teaching methods to reflect new technology?
我们已经改变我们的教育方法以便适应新技术了吗?

“We can’t avoid learning these tools.We can’t walk away from this”
我们不能回避学习这些工具。我们无法离开这些工具。

“The fact is,our young people are woefully under prepared for the demands of today’s workplace,”
事实上,我们的年轻人悲哀的发现没有对现在工作场所的需求有充分的准备。

“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”
我们无法用过去的方法来解决我们现在发明的问题。

The past 25 years in technology have been the warmup act.What we are now entering is the MAIN EVENT which is the era in which technology will truly transform every aspect of business,government,education and society of life.
在过去的25年中技术只是缓慢的影响我们。而现在时代改变了,技术将深刻得改变我们的企业、政府、教育和社会生活。

What does it all mean?
这些说明什么?

Shift Happens.
转变正在发生

Now you know…
既然你知道了…

———————
“Did You Know Ⅳ (4) ?”
21st Century Learning
Tools for the Classroom
Revised 112007
Howie DiBlasi I.T. Director
“Emerging Technology Evangelist”
Digital Journey
1034 East 3rd Ave. Durango Colorado
9707490760
Conference Presentation 2007
howie@frontier.net
Thanks to the following for content,data and statistics:
Alan November
David Warick
Thomas Friedman
Will Richardson
Ian Jukes
Chris Dede
Ray Kurzwell
Angus King
Milken Conference
Dan Schmidl
Karl Fisch for the origninal Did You Know
Howie Di Blasi

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Randy Paush 逝世

July 26th, 2008 天照

Randy Paush 在 The Last Lecture 上

Randy Pausch 教授去世了,7月25日,就是昨天。

这是CMU发布的消息。

得知他是很偶然的,只是在开复网上随意点了一个链接,看到了那篇著名的The Last Lecture演讲。当时一口气就看完了,确实比较震撼。看他在台上做俯卧撑,开癌症的幽默,包括那关于梦想的演讲辞,都无法不令人动容。

看完后继续看网页介绍,才发现这段原本教授留给自己3个子女的演讲录像放在网上被无数人观看转载,也许有几千万人。

去年8月医生诊断他只能活6个月,教授把它延长了5个月。不知在最后时刻,教授心中又有什么感想。

Lead your life, anyway.

PS:优酷网上的Randy教授的The “Last Lecture”

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有道博客测试:男or女

July 19th, 2008 天照

Yodao博客男女——测测你的博客是男是女

我的结果:

SOUL IN THE SKY
100.0%男性倾向,0.0%女性倾向
评点:您的文风冷静而镇定,言语间展现出强悍的思辨能力与恢宏的胸襟,一个男子汉的阳刚形象跃然纸上。
yodao | 博客男女

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自己常用的FF插件

June 27th, 2008 天照

留个备份。

ColorfulTabs
使得Tab有不同颜色,好看又方便。

Compact Menu
把菜单栏缩到一个按钮内,又节省一行空间。

del.icio.us Bookmarks
delicious网络书签,很好用。个人感觉不比Google书签逊色。

FireFTP
使firefox能具有ftp功能。

FlashGot
使得FF能使用Flashget、迅雷等下载软件。

IE Tab
让 Firefox 也能内嵌 IE 用双核心,上招行、qzone这种完全不支持firefox的烂网站时就靠它了,彻底放弃IE。

MinimizeToTray
能最小化FF到托盘栏内……这可是当初我用傲游最大的理由。

Torbutton
为tor加个按钮,在FF的右下方。

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黄仁宇的书

June 15th, 2008 天照

最近在集中连续看他的几本书。


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为汶川大地震遇难同胞志哀

May 20th, 2008 天照

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Britain’s Got Talent里的一段点评

May 5th, 2008 天照

最近迷上了American Idol和Britain’s Got Talent这两档节目,看了不少,感觉不错。

固然有很多出彩的参赛者,但评委也是很有看头的。其中有个13岁小男孩唱歌剧,说到自己因为喜欢歌剧而被学校里的人欺负。整段节目制作严谨,煽情到位——但三位评委的点评还是让我印象相当深刻:

Amanda Holden:
Well, I really promise myself I wouldn’t gonna cry on this show.
I just was mesmerised by you. I could not take my eyes off you.
You could knock all those bullies out with that voice.

Piers Morgan:
Andrew. The thing about school bullies, they don’t like you for one reason - you’ve got more talent than they could dream of having - ever.

Simon Cowell:
Andrew. I think you better than you think you are. But hear it from me, you are good.
But most importantly what I want to see now Andrew. I want to see a bit more confidnece and self belief.
I want you to come on if you make it through to the next round. Look me in the eye and say you can win this because you are capable.

这里是优酷的视频。

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五一回合肥计划取消

May 4th, 2008 天照

五一回合肥的计划又在临走前一天取消了。因为合肥已经发现手足口病病例了。

为了宝宝的安全,于是取消原计划,嗯。

话说回来,为何这次又是阜阳?

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真正的高贵

December 12th, 2007 天照

In a calm sea every man is a pilot.

But all sunshine without shade, all pleasure without pain, is not a life at all.Take the lot of the happiest–it is a tangled yarn. Bereavements and blessings,one following another, make us sad and blessed by turns. Even death itself makes live more loving. Men come closest to their true selves in the sober moments of life,under the shadows of sorrow and loss.

In the affairs of life or of business, it is not intellect that tells so much as character, not brain so much as heart, not genius so much as self-controll, patience,and discipline, regulated by judgement.I have believed that the man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without. In an age of extravagance and waste, I wish I could show to the world how few the real wants of humanity are.

To regret one’s errors to the point of not repeating them is true repentance.There is noting noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

风平浪静之时,人人能驾驭船只。

但如果只有阳光而没有阴影,只有欢乐而没有痛苦,那就不是完整的人生。就拿最幸福的人来说吧——他的幸福是一团纠结的纱线。痛苦和幸福轮番而至,让我们悲喜交集,甚至死亡都让人生更为可爱。人们在生命的严肃深刻,在悲伤与丧亲的阴影下,才最接近真实的自我。

在生活和事业的各个方面,才智的功能远不如性格,头脑的功能远不如心性,天分远不如自制力、毅力与教养。

我始终认为内心开始过严肃生活的人,他外在的生活会开始变得更为简朴。在一个奢侈浪费的年代,但愿我能让世人了解:人类真正的需求是多么的稀少。

不重蹈覆辙才是真正的醒悟。比别人优秀并无任何高贵之处,真正的高贵在于超越从前的自我。

——海明威

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读书九法

June 24th, 2007 天照

carpenter1983在他的Blogbus开博第一篇的《读书九法》 ,我觉得很有道理,转载提要如下:

1、尽量借图书馆的新书。
2、经典书在经济条件允许情况下,尽量买。
3、根据自己的兴趣,重点关注若干出版社(出版集团)。
4、读书要有一个文献学的准备过程。
5、不要完全迷信书单。
6、藏书与读书要保持适当比例。
7、有的读者看书有猴急的毛病,要不得。
8、经典之作读过以后应当整理读书笔记。
9、对于数学模型为主的经济学理论书籍,需要注重其“诗外的功夫”。

其中的4、5、7、8条,都是需要常加警策自己的。

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