The document discusses teaching Excel skills to students. It argues that Excel is a useful and important skill for any career or field of study. It notes that while typing was an important skill in the past, data analysis skills using programs like Excel are becoming just as essential. The document outlines how the proposed Excel course would focus on practical mechanics to allow quick learning, using relevant examples like college admissions data. It argues the course would help students develop both logical "left-brained" skills and creative "right-brained" skills needed to succeed in today's global economy.

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2. Imagine
career
Learning a skill that is not
taught until you’re on-the-
job
grad school
high college
school
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3. Remember
Learning to type?
How useful has it been to
your every day life?
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4. There’s another skill that is becoming
just as important as typing.
It’s working with data. You know: lists,
charts, databases.
Except normal typing
isn’t enough. You need
to learn how to use a
spreadsheet program
like Microsoft Excel.
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5. Spreadsheets are the true
language of the future.
NOT
Chinese English Hindi
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6. CEO
Everyone uses
spreadsheets.
Receptionist 6

7. Every occupation uses spreadsheets.
Business Sciences Psychology Art…
Engineering Medicine
History
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8. Art??
Absolutely.
Ask any grad Ask Sotheby’s.
student
Art pieces and Art auctions are
research have all increasingly set
been digitalized by
and cataloged in sophisticated
university online analyses of
databases. historical prices.
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9. The most common program used to analyze DATA is Microsoft
Excel.
But we’re not teaching anyone how to use it…
…leading to
frustration and
WASTED time.
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10. We focus first on
Sheer Mechanics
Because that opens the door to quick, repetitive, addictive learning.
Finance Accounting Math
Keyboard Hand-Eye
Speed
Shortcuts Coordination
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11. Our class is:
Practical Relevant Immediate
We stay away from We use course Students will use
theory and jump materials such as these skills
right into actual college admissions immediately in high
use. data that is relevant school and college.
to students’ current
lives
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12. Presentation.
The way numbers are presented makes a
huge impact on the credibility of the numbers
and the author. Trainees will learn how to
add immediate value to a spreadsheet via
formatting.
Story.
Numbers must tell a story, just like words.
Trainees will learn how to use numbers to
argue a point. Data.
Businesses rely increasingly on larger volume of data. Trainees
will learn how to quickly manipulate numbers.
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13. Left-brained.
Trainees will develop
a muscular
proficiency at
analytics, logic, math Right-brained.
and interpretation.
Working with a visual presentation
such as Excel will help trainees grow
a large capacity for invention,
creativity, free-form association and
big-picture thinking.
Brawny brains.
Trainees must have both hemispheres
firing in order to compete in the global
economy.
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