Remove Critical Thinking Remove Data analysis Remove Gamification Remove Physics
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What’s Changed in Lesson Planning

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For example, spreadsheets should teach critical thinking and data analysis, not Excel or Sheets. Just as students learned to survive a physical community of strangers, they must do so in a digital neighborhood. Play is the new teaching though it’s beenrelabeled ‘gamification’.

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What is the 21st Century Lesson Plan?

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For example, when teaching spreadsheets, make the software or online tools a vehicle for practicing critical thinking, data analysis, and evidence-based learning, not for learning one brand of software or a particular spreadsheet tool. Critical thinking Education reform Lesson plans play'