Hestenes paper and NGSS

I liked the Hestenes paper because it presents physics as a continual refinement of models to explain physical phenomena. It is really different from the way I was taught physics, which was mostly memorizing equations and learning which equations would fit which situations on test problems. The Newtonian World game is really the way physics should be taught because it goes through the procedural thinking and reasoning behind coming up with the models, and it seems to be essential in dispelling preconceived misconceptions that are hard to wipe away even after studying a year of college physics. It fits all eight practices. The most important ones include 1) asking questions, 2) developing and using models, 5) using mathematics and computational thinking, and 6) constructing explanations. I also believe that students playing the "game" would also need to have a lot of prior knowledge, especially in mathematics and/or proficiency in using modeling software, to construct models on their own to explain measurements of the physical world. To Hestenes it seems very straightforward that adopting the game is a surefire way to ensure student understanding of physics, but questions remain in how much assistance or hand-holding students require to go through the game, because it is certainly easier and more straight-forward to teach the traditional way, regardless eventual student understanding.