My most important takeaway from our Week 2 content on spreadsheets is that there seems to be a need (as well as a desire) for more and better application of this tool across education. A spreadsheet includes many functions that would serve students well in school and beyond: graphic organizer, planner, high-end calculator.
There appeared to be a lot of support for using spreadsheets to incorporate the concept of timelines in classes. Creating such a visual aid to help describe concepts or information in a particular field allows for the cross-pollination of curricula—art meeting science, or history, or technology, et al. This might be a good lesson or project to implement in the near future.
Teachers also believed that spreadsheets develop business and technology skills for the long term, in particular the ability to budget—time as well as money—on a personal and professional level. While this too would make good lesson content, there was a note of concern from non-business CTE teachers who were unsure of how or when to incorporate this technology for business functions or equipment-based data analysis, or even find the computers and time to do so.
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