Genius Hour #1 📚

This week I was very lucky to witness the passion projects our munchkins prepared ☺️

Genius hour is a movement that allows students to explore their own passions and encourages creativity in the classroom. 

 "Genius Hour Origins The search-engine giant, Google, allows it’s engineers to spend 20% of their time to work on any pet project that they want. The idea is very simple. Allow people to work on something that interests them, and productivity will go up. Google’s policy has worked so well that it has been said that 50% of Google’s projects have been created during this creative time period. Ever heard of Gmail or Google News? These projects are creations by passionate developers that blossomed from their their 20-time projects."

These genius hour ideas are being applied in our classroom just as they are in the corporate world.  I provide the time for the students to work on their passion projects, they are challenged to explore something they want to learn more about and they spend several weeks researching the topic.  In the end they create a product that will be shared with the class!  

Here is round one of our fantastic projects:

We learned so much from these insightful presentations, I can't wait for the second one 😄

Stay safe ❤️

MLopez

XO