Shift Happens Australia

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The 2% of the population in Chinawith the highest IQs

of Australia

They have more gifted & talented students, than we have students

UK

It is estimated that

According to former USAccording to former USSecretary of EducationSecretary of EducationRichard Riley…Richard Riley…

According to BBC News, According to BBC News, a new blog is created a new blog is created every secondevery second..

There are over 188 million registered users of MySpace

(as of October 2007)

If MySpace were a country, it would be the

5th most populous in the world

(between Indonesia and Brazil)

100 Australians sign up to facebook every hour

1,400,000 UK pupils have 1,400,000 UK pupils have their their own web page.own web page.

Worldwide, there are over 2.7 billion searches performed on

Google each month

It is estimated that a week’s worth of The Times…

For students starting a For students starting a three-year university degree, three-year university degree,

this means that . . .this means that . . .

half of what they learn in their first half of what they learn in their first

year of study will be outdatedyear of study will be outdated by the end of their studies.by the end of their studies.

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Australia is one of the Australia is one of the highest consumers of highest consumers of

gaming software in the world gaming software in the world on a per capita basis.on a per capita basis.

75% of Australian computer game users are over 18

The Philippines is the text-messaging capital of the world:

over 160 million texts are sent per day

The average Australian teen regularly uses their mobile phone in 8 different ways

Around Around 61%61% of of Australian teenagers Australian teenagers own a mobile phone, a own a mobile phone, a computer, and a games computer, and a games console.console.

71% of Australian kids play 71% of Australian kids play video games at least once a video games at least once a fortnightfortnight

72%72% of teachersof teachers nevernever play play computer gamescomputer games