Genius Hour
20 % time
Simon Ashby
Ed Tech Coach | Primary Teacher
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Genius Hour/20% Time
Screencasting 101
I Can See Clearly Now-Sites & Student Agency
The Simplified Classroom
Visual Tools Magic
What if your students could learn about anything they wanted?
Your chance: Audience questions/resources/ideas/shared doc
How might we action what for whom in order to change something?
To me Student Agency means I am being independent and getting to pick what I need to do to get better as a learner. I really like that feeling of being free...because otherwise school is like a Zoo and we are the animals being trapped in cages being told what tricks to do and when. (Cherry 10)
How might I design and build a go-kart that I can race with my friends?
How might I write my own children’s novel?
Can we encourage people to recycle by designing our own line of recycled clothing?
In what ways can I teach kids around the world to be confident and passionate like me?
What am I able to learn about my own culture?
What is the best way for me to encourage my peers to play football?
How might I encourage society to use less palm oil?
Am I able to recreate the HMS Endeavour to a smaller scale.?
What can I learn about rainbows?
How will I learn about the brain?
How can I learn if dragons are real?
I wonder how guns work?
What can we learn about electricity?
How can we teach people about fossils?
“I like the freedom to do what I want without needing to hold the teacher’s hand the whole time.” (Amy 10)
You are showing your students that what matters to them, matters to you.
How are you intelligent?
Extract from Freya’s nATURE ESSAY 2016
Tramping and summiting mountains requires perseverance and stamina and the skill of being able to appreciate the simple things, like amazing views, rustic huts and hard bunk beds, and waking up in the morning; looking out of the window and seeing snow falling. When you're tramping you're free, wide open spaces all around, impressive ridges begging to be conquered, and the draw of them to keep you going. There’s so many different things to look at, and so many things to think about. Imagine getting to the top of a mountain after a gruelling hike, and looking around at the tiny hut, way in the distance and the track winding up the valley, so far away. You have walked that distance, and now you've achieved your goal. There’s the song “On top of the world,” and at this point that’s exactly how you feel, on top of the world, as you breath in the cool mountain air, and take in how high up you are.
Four guiding rules
SHARE
Utilising GAFE TOOLs for evidence
Forms for feedback
Docs for weekly reflections
Drawings/Canva for questions
FREEDOM IS HARD
Sorry about the mess-
we are learning here!
I am only one,
but I am one,
I cannot do everything, but I can do something, and I will not let
what I cannot do,
interfere with what
I can do.
Edward Everett Hale
Students need to know that you can never give up...find something that challenges you so if you fail you learn from your mistakes and do it again until you have success in it. (Alex 10)
visible learning
Try our new flavour lite 2.0
Motivator
facilitator
Questioner
innovator
CONNECT WITH OTHER TEACHERS...
TIPS
Further Resources:
http://www.geniushour.com/2013/03/31/genius-hour-ideas/
St. Marks School-59 Genius Hour Projects 2015
http://www.genius-hour-the-student-brainstorming-tool/
#geniushour
Your chance: Audience questions/resources/ideas/shared doc
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