So exciting to be here with Herman presenting.
Today we're looking at Genius Hour.
In order:
We looked at Genius Hour and how a lot of Google products were originally part of their 20% time.
How this can apply to students in our schools?
Empowerment, passion, engagement.
Process - exciting and chaotic start, refining the process in later years.
Refining the planning
Using Blogs to plan
Using Google Slides and videos as reflection
Follow on - learning is catching - one student with a mum into pallet couches brought the idea to school and all students building on each other's learning.
Students negotiating timetables in order to maximise their Genius Hour time
"Demonstrates effort, learning and a mastery of skills" - video on slide 9
Video talks about:
Weekly Question problem
Whole Term Project - like a passion project - music etc
Group Projects - collaboration (arguing why a project is a good idea etc)
Following this, we looked at the making Open and Closed questions in order to develop our questioning process and developing great questions.
Doc with questions here
Excellent and relevant presentation - seriously inspiring! Google 4E for life!
Cheers Aimz! I heard really good things about your session :) Will need to see if we can use this 'Whitelist Domains' to our advantage; you can have other domains linked to our domain (@gisint.school.nz). Could mean that your classroom could connect with another school/teacher/professional? Thanks too for the support during the session! - you are amazing! :)
ReplyDeleteWow that would definitely be easier than creating demo accounts! Thanks for all the inspiration and support on the journey - woohoo what a road! Thoroughly enjoyed being at your session and seeing the passion you have for learning! Keep up the great (e-) learning :)
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