Thrively is a fun new website that helps kids discover their own unique strengths and find new interest areas to explore based on those strengths. Give it a try!
Kirsten Wilson's insight:
Great resource for teachers that are seeking ways to help students tap into their passions and develop them on a deeper level.
It has been my own personal goal this year to learn and understand more about the idea of "Genius Hour," and how and what it would look like in the classroom. It is a constant buzz word that always...
Some schools are building in time for students to work on passion projects -- an idea inspired by Google's 20% time.
Kirsten Wilson's insight:
The message is spreading. More and more classrooms are seeing the need to move beyond the standards. Put the learning in the hands of students and guide them to set learning goals, serve others with their learning beyond the classroom walls and discover their passions. What is stopping you from being a Genius Hour, Passion Based Learning environment?
This is on the verge of Genius Hour. Insight is exceptional... what is still to be understood is that content and skills can still be taught with even greater depth if components of traditional PBLs such as authentic audience, solving of problems realistically, and giving back are done not from a teacher giving a certain criteria w/in a PBL but giving no parameters and letting students' passions find the problem to resolve. Now Problem Based Learning becomes Passion Based Learning... content, skills and scope are still there but now it is truly student-driven.
This is on the verge of Genius Hour. Insight is exceptional... what is still to be understood is that content and skills can still be taught with even greater depth if components of traditional PBLs such as authentic audience, solving of problems realistically, and giving back are done not from a teacher giving a certain criteria w/in a PBL but giving no parameters and letting students' passions find the problem to resolve. Now Problem Based Learning becomes Passion Based Learning... content, skills and scope are still there but now it is truly student-driven.
Entire magazine covers how technology lends itself to differentiation in ways that traditional methods cannot. Center article talks about the implementation of Genius Hour from author and instructional technology coach Kirsten Wilson.
It's easy to make fun of stuff - it's cooler to make stuff! Kid President has a life-long wish fulfilled when he gets to see how jet engines are made and is ...
Kid President believes we're all teachers and we're all students. What are you teaching the world? Who are you learning from? Share this with a special teach...
A documentary film airing on public television in September explores the incredible work that students can produce when their passions and interests drive learning.
Kirsten Wilson's insight:
Great article about the need for educators to provide real world problems for kids to solve related to their passions.
A rising high school senior, Emma Astrike-Davis, 17, is an all-state runner, a leader in several student organizations, a local lifeguard – and president of the nonprofit she started in middle school.
Kirsten Wilson's insight:
Example of where passion and a heart for others can take students given the opportunity.
This past January, TED-Ed launched TED-Ed Clubs -- a flexible, school-based program that supports students in discussing, pursuing and presenting their big ideas in the form of short TED-style talk...
Kirsten Wilson's insight:
Great way to take a genius hour or PBL style program to the next level.
Have you ever met an adult who doesn't really love what they do, but just goes through the motions in their job and everyday life? Have you spoken with men and women who constantly complain, showing
Kirsten Wilson's insight:
Great text to explain and persuade educators to implement the process of Genius Hour in their classroom.
Some schools are building in time for students to work on passion projects -- an idea inspired by Google's 20% time. ('Genius hour': Students, what would you like to learn today?
Creativity works in mysterious and often paradoxical ways. Creative thinking is a stable, defining characteristic in some personalities, but it may also change based on situation and context.
Kirsten Wilson's insight:
Great article that supports the idea of having a platform like Genius Hour to foster the creativity of our youth... The future leaders of our world.
Genius Hour is done in 6 week rotations. Students spend 60 minutes per week on their chosen projects (class time). Each student must have a final product which is submitted to a global audience...
Kirsten Wilson's insight:
Example of a website teacher, Traci Logue, uses to facilitate and showcase Genius Hour in her classroom.
I speak often to groups of aspiring young leaders. Typically, the question on their minds when I begin is "what do I need to DO to become a leader." I quickly aim to change their orientation from what they must DO to what they must BE.
Kirsten Wilson's insight:
I love this article as a woman and mother of a young woman. Great insight and should be shared with all women!
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