Genius Hour - Herman Fourie

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!