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Glenn Hervieux

Five-Minute Film Festival: Genius Hour | Edutopia - 73 views

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    Want to explore the "Genius Hour" concept. These videos and links will help introduce you to an approach many are embracing.
H DeWaard

Genius Hour | Mr. C's SharesEase - 55 views

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    This great video clearly outlines Genius Hour movement  happening in classrooms across the world! After reflecting for a few months on how to initiate #GeniusHour in my classroom I finally jumped i...
Martin Burrett

Genius Hour Projects: Not just for Primary Schools by @hecticteacher - 25 views

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    "Genius Hour: From discussions with Primary school teacher friends of mine it was pointed out that something happened in Year 7 that changed students from the risk taking and independent learners that they were in Year 6 into passive learners by the end of Year 7. I had noticed the same thing with my own niece as she transitioned from primary to secondary, so I started to think about what was causing it. The more I looked the more I noticed that in secondary there is very little opportunity for students to make choices or take ownership of their learning and I wanted to change this."
ana2teach

Genius Hour - 70 views

I am reading the book. It is very interesting. Hope to be able to do Genius Hour with my students. I look forward to posts here in this thread to know more about how others implement Genius Hour.

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koolteecha

Pieter Bruegel - 20 views

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      Look closely at Bruegel's poem.  Make notes about what you see - objects, geographical features, people, animals, etc.
  • Pieter Bruegel the Elder
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    You should try Poetry Genius for this. It is an amazing and growing app: http://genius.com/tags/poetry It's a place where you post your poem and your students can annotate in real-time. You can restrict it to just your class, or you can open it up to the community. They also have Literature Genius with some awesome pages (so far I have looked at Hawthorne and O'Connor--but there are a ton more http://lit.genius.com/.
Nigel Coutts

Lessons Learned from Genius Hour - 54 views

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    After eight years of engaging our students with a Personal Passion Project during Term Four we shifted to a 'Genius Hour' model for 2015. In the end the results from the students were impressive but along the way some lessons were learned and we are looking forward to making some minor tweaks for 2016 that should further enhance the learning opportunities.
Nigel Coutts

Encouraging Persistence - The Learner's Way - 5 views

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    "Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan Press On! has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race." ― Calvin Coolidge Growing up, I had a copy of this quote on my wall. It is one of those things that stuck with me over the years. For a long time I might not have truly appreciated its wisdom. Now as a teacher in times of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity, its significance seems to have grown. When we can instantaneous consumers of the all of the worlds information, as we access anything and everything at the speed of light, how do we learn the value of persistence?
Marc Patton

Genius SIS - 16 views

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    Genius SIS is a powerful web-based student information system designed to make a school operation easier, faster and more reliable. It manages your admission process, controls enrollments, provides information to students and guardians, tracks students progress, improves your communication with students, offers dynamic reports and much more.
Matt Renwick

The Genius Who Plays For A Living | Popular Science - 35 views

  • Hirsh-Pasek found that the second group—the ones engaged in what she calls guided play—came up with the most creative solutions. The same idea applies to scientists, she says: They do their best work when they’re free to play around with a known set of problems.
  • “Scientists actually are the few people who as adults get to have this protected time when they can just explore, play, figure out what the world is like.”
  • “We know each other so well that it makes for a really effective combination,” Erik says. “He’s always trying to reinject some playfulness into my serious work. It lets us do things that neither of us could do.”
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  • play is fundamental to science
  • When I ask him later why he chooses to teach the way he does, he answers simply, “I think this is a cool way of working, and more people should work this way. Sadly, not everyone does, so I try to pass it on.”
Roland Gesthuizen

Burlington High School Help Desk | A student run genius bar - 4 views

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    "A student run genius bar"
psmiley

Taking Student Genius Global | Smore - 27 views

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    Quest2Matter - Angela Maiers
Sandie Toohey

Genius Hour - Where Passions Come Alive | Genius Hour - 67 views

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    Great things can come from letting people have a Genius Hour.
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    I think I'm going to try this next school year.
Nigel Coutts

Genius Hour - Why we scaffold - 79 views

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    Genius Hour - The idea is simple, identify a block of time and give it over to the students as an opportunity for them to create a learning experience of their own. But while the idea is simple implementing such a plan can be challenging and there are aspects of such a project that require careful planning and a clear philosophical understanding before you begin.
Matt Renwick

The Genius Who Plays For A Living | Popular Science - 16 views

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      notice the word "portfolio" - digital?
  • Instead of concerning himself with applications or even defining a specialized area of research, Demaine chooses projects based purely on his curiosity, regardless of where they may lead. Where others seek answers, Demaine looks for questions. “I collect problems,” he says. “The problems are the key to everything.”
Chema Falcó

Discover Genius In Your Students: The First 30 Days. - 21 views

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    Rol del profesor: descubridor de genios; ya no es la única persona en clase de la que el grupo puede aprender
Craig Dunlap

Genius Hour on Steroids - 57 views

How students will be innovating next year. Read on..http://craigsworld37.blogspot.com/2015/03/now-announcing-two-innovation-courses.html

Genius Hour

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Nigel Coutts

Helping students to become problem finders - The Learner's Way - 44 views

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    For students engaging in creative personalised learning projects such as a 'Genius Hour' or 'Personal Passion project it can often be difficult for them to uncover the right project. Students have become so reliant upon their teachers to pose them problems that when they are given the option to explore one of their own design they don't know where to start. This is indeed a significant challenge as we know that our students will enter a workforce and world of learning beyond school where they must be active problem finders. How then might we provide the support they require without removing the opportunity for truly personalised exploration.  
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