Keynote Michael Kogeler: 14th ICT day Diepenbeek

On Monday 9 March 2009 , Michael Kogeler , General Manager Microsoft Consumer and Online, delivered a remarkable speech as an introduction to a busy ICT day at the KHLim in Diepenbeek. The 650 attendees listened with fascination. There was no time for discussion, everyone rushed to one of the 67 hands-on sessions.

Below we will explain what Mr Kogeler has brought with regard to a number of attractive slides. Feel free to respond to this message.

Student in a changing world ...
Who am I? The man who knows nothing ...

A man awakes after 100 years of sleep in the 21st century and is amazed at what he encounters. Men and women walk around, talking to small electronic boxes. Young people sit at home on the couch while they let mini-dolls move on a kind of screen. Old people continue to live longer because of cupboards in their chests, with plastic hips and tubes in their noses. Everywhere the man comes he falls backward in surprise. Eventually he comes to a school, and the man immediately knows where he is. "This is a school", he says, "We already had this in 1909. Only the black boards are now white".

Did you know that ...

• If you are 1 of a group of 1 million people in China ... there are 1300 people just like you;
• There are 1100 people in India just like you;
• The top 5% people in China with the highest IQs are six times larger than the total population of Belgium. In India that is the top 7%.

Translated, this means that they have more talented and brilliant students than we students have ...

Did you know that ...

• It is estimated that the average student of today will have 10 to 14 jobs before he reaches the age of 38;
• 1 in 4 employees today work less than 1 year for their current employee;
• 1 in 2 employees will work less than 5 years for their current employee;
• The top 10 of the most requested jobs in 2010 did not exist in 2004;
• You are training your pupils for jobs that do not currently exist and you prepare them for technology that has not yet been invented to solve problems that we do not even know are problems;

Did you know that ...

• In June 2010 the Internet in Belgium for the 1st time in history will be the most used medium, at the expense of television. Internet will be used 14.2 hours per week versus 11.5 hours for television
• A 12-24 year old
  • Will never read a newspaper, but only online magazines;
  • Will never own a landline and maybe no watch;
  • Will never watch live television again;
  • Familiar strangers on the Internet more than acquaintances;
  • The world revolves around his / her social groups environment;
  • Want to be heard. Want to talk to, more than ever;
  • Uses instant messaging. (E-Mail is for their parents).

In Belgium

• 98% of 12 year olds want to do well at school. And yet only 38% like to go to school!
• 213,000 students have their own web pages;

Did you know that there are 2.2 billion searches monthly on Windows Live Search! Where were those questions asked earlier? At school?

In Dutch there are around 240000 words. That is 5 times more than in Rubens's time. 5000 books are published every day. It has been calculated that a week of information from Time contains more information than a person in the 18th century would encounter in his entire life. It is estimated that 40 exabytes (4 x 10 ¹⁹ ) of new information will be generated in the remainder of 2009 (and that is now 9 months). That is more than in the past 5000 years. The amount of knowledge available doubles every 2 years. In 2012 this will be every 72 hours.

6 in 10 young people have a PC, a mobile phone and a gaming computer. 73% of young people play a computer game in a period of 14 days. 72% of teachers never do this.

What does all this mean ...

" We must be the change we wish to see in the world. " (Gandhi)