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Published on Aug 21, 2016

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

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https://youtu.be/l-gQLqv9f4o - Kid President video

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  • What are your concerns about Genius Hour?
  • What are you excited about Genius Hour?
  • What are your ideas for organizing your projects?
  • What would make you walk away from Genius Hour?
4 Questions to Answer:
What are your concerns about Genius Hour?
What are you excited about Genius Hour?
What are your ideas for organizing your projects?
What would make you walk away from Genius Hour?

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BUY IN is key!
Frontload buy-in before ever starting.

http://www.choose2matter.org/liberatinggenius/
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Show examples:
HIgh School Projects
https://ideafm.org/2015/05/04/innovation-reflection-pond-gazing-at-past-stu...

Brainstorming protocols

Strengths assessment (explore later with Thrively in the ebook)

Video for kids
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDZ0-pmnprM

Notebooks

Reflection is essential to Genius Hour
Lots of options:
Google Doc or sheet
Canvas (discussion section)
Thrively
Google Sites

Question formation

Having a great question takes practice.
4 corners with Q examples

Research Begins

Need to decide on a model -
eWISE is the one adopted by the County

Start out each session with mini-lessons on how to research so we can move beyond just "Googling" answers.
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The proposal

Gotta have teacher approval
We will explore templates on the LiveBinder site later:

The proposal can be used as a one on one conversation to really figure out what the kids want to do.

Great time to use peer review.

Goal Setting

Organization is key
Teaching time management

Organization

Goals requiring action steps

Possibly end each Genius Hour session with reflection and GOAL setting (figure out a tool to use)
* Google Sheet
* Padlet
* Trello

Assessment

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