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Stimulating critical thinking using technology has the potential to create more in depth understanding of science and math content by students when engaged in learning activities which integrate in-class and on-line technology resources. Technology tools support stimulation of both inquiry-based and critical thinking skills by engaging students in exploring, thinking, reading, writing, researching, inventing, problem-solving, and experiencing the world outside their classroom. This is accomplished through learning content through the lens of video to multimedia to the internet (Using Technology to Improve Student Achievement, NCREL, 2005).

Mr. Yunus was in the introduction of this Google Europe session. There is a speech by Hans Rosling where he discusses statistics in an interesting, enticing way to draw his students and the public into the conversation of the rest of the world...who live in squalor and poverty.