Today, I introduced the students to the idea of Genius Hour. What is Genius Hour, you ask? Well, it's a portion of class time (in our case, 2 periods every Friday, during our Daily 5 time) where students will be encouraged to learn about what they want to learn about. This fits in beautifully with the idea of our Daily 5 time, where students are working towards improving their reading and writing skills, as they will eventually have to share what they have learned with the rest of the class, in some form, when they are finished. I am excited for the next phase of this, which will occur next week - as a class, we will start brainstorming some ideas of what they want to learn more about, and then beginning to plan how they will go about learning what they want to learn. I told the students that, this weekend, I want all of them to think about what it is they'd like to learn more about; what question would they like answered (and if it can be answered in 30 seconds by 'Googling' it, we probably have to tweak the question!). I've included the Haiku Deck presentation that I created to introduce the idea to them (inspired by the one Chris Kesler created, which can be viewed at geniushour.com), so that you can get an idea of what we're embarking on - join us for the ride, and see what interesting things the students (and you!) can learn!
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