You saw this last year, right?
It’s a new school year. Watch it again. Certainly it’s still a conversation starter for teachers — it maybe a good place to start conversations for students, too, in government, history, geography and economics courses especially.
Karl Fisch created the original version for a staff development session at Arapahoe High School in Littleton, Colorado. It’s gone around the world several times since then — more than 5 million viewings by some counts.
♦ Did you know that 5 million is barely more than the number of people who live in the Dallas/Fort Worth metropolitan areas?
♦ Did you know that 5 million is just 1/60th of the U.S. population (300 million)? That’s just 1.7% of the U.S.?
♦ Did you know that 5 million non-Jews also perished in the Holocaust?
♦ Did you know that the White House lost 5 million e-mails in two years? Did you know almost no one noticed?
♦ Did you know some estimates are that 5 million Iraqis are refugees as a result of the current conflict there?
♦ Did you know that the Apple iTunes Store passed 5 million hits — in June 2003?
♦ Five million is a lot — but maybe not enough. Show this, and Fischer’s site, to other people you know who should be interested.
♦ Did you know that Karl Fischer has other thought provoking presentations?
Take a look. I may have more to say about it. It is, after all, deserving of further thought.
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