Numbers
People
Terms
Skill Areas
Potpourri
100
The number of "home media products" per household in 1975
What is 4.
100
Created the hierarchy of needs.
Who is Maslow
100
The calendar that guides today's educational planning
What is agrarian?
100
The skills that 400 hiring executives indicated that students graduating from secondary school, tech colleges, and universities are sorely lacking
What are basic and applied skills?
100
Since 1990, the Age in which there has been a revolution in our understanding of how people learn.
What is Knowledge?
200
The percentage of the world's children currently attending primary and secondary schools?
What is 77 percent?
200
The first generation of people to grow up surrounded by digital media
Who are Digital Natives?
200
The "age" when populations dramatically shifted from farm to city and work moved from fields to factories
What is Industrial?
200
The 21st Century Skills that focuses upon ecological awareness and understanding and resource sustainability.
What is Environmental literacy?
200
Many jobs of the future.
What does not yet exist?
300
The number of web pages indexed by the search engine Google in July of 2008, reaching a new milestone.
What is 1 trillion.
300
Those who were not born into the digital world but have adopted aspects of technology.
Who are Digital immigrants?
300
A direct result of the mixing of cultures and traditions in urban centers
What is Cultural awareness
300
The 21st Century Skill that focuses upon economic, business, and entrepreneurial knowledge.
What is Financial literacy?
300
The "Q" in the "Ps and Qs" of engaged learning?
What is question?
400
The number of books, movies, and other documents that can fit on a single digital tape cassette
What is 140 million.
400
A theory intended to personalize learning and differentiate instruction.
What is Gardner's Multiple Intelligences
400
The "E" in STEM subjects
What is Engineering?
400
The 21st Century Skill that focuses upon health care, nutrition, and preventative medicine.
What is Health literacy?
400
The year when the total amount spent on "information age" materials (i.e. computers, phones, networking devices) exceed that of industrial goods (i.e. engines, machines, transportation).
What is 1991?
500
Authors suggest this is a reasonable goal for the percentage of time to devote to inquiry, deign, and project-based learning.
What is 50 percent.
500
The authors of the book
Who are Trilling and Fadel?
500
The two kinds of content Prensky identifies as important to incorporate in the classroom.
What are Legacy and future?
500
There is a shortage of well-trained workers in these areas, resulting in bringing in skilled workers from other countries, as well as outsourcing.
What are STEM?
500
A game in which the player becomes an intergalactic secret agent who is responsible for saving a space station from attack.
What is The Monkey Wrench Conspiracy?