When I say Kelly Gallagher a couple years ago, he said that he shared with students – as a way to get kids to thing more critically about their world – a statistic drawn each week from The Week magazine. I try to do something similar in my class and give kids a template to speak about the data: “At first glance it seems as though ___; however, something that’s not said is ______.” Stuff like that. Anyway, there’s a place you can sign up for “Daily Stat” from Harvard Business Review. Here: http://web.hbr.org/email/archive/dailystat.php
Here’s today’s:
| SEPTEMBER 26, 2011 |
| 64% of college students in a global survey said that if forced to choose, they would opt for having an internet connection rather than a car. 40% said the internet is more important to them than dating, going out with friends, or listening to music. The Cisco Connected World Technology Report draws on surveys of some 1,400 students in 14 countries. |
