Video Reflection: Did you know?

This video was similar to "Pay Attention," the video we watched last week. Like last weeks video, "Did you know?" provided some pretty amazing, yet not entirely surprising facts. For example I learned that 1 out of 8 couples married in 2006 met online. This just shows the power the worldwide web has in affecting every aspect of our lives. Another fact that really stuck out to me was that there are now five times as many words in the English language as there were in Shakespeare's times. That seems pretty amazing if you consider how massive a vocabulary existed back then. All these points are addressed to convey the idea that we live in exponential times, and if this trend continues I can only imagine where we will be in ten or twenty years. This impacts me as a prospective educator, and helps me realize the importance of doing the best I can to prepare the leaders of tomorrow in any way I can. By teaching I am, as the video said preparing children to fulfill jobs that have not yet been created and solve problems that do not exist. That seems like a pretty important task to me.