When I asked my class “If you had to choose between Youtube or TV, what would you pick?”- it was almost unanimous, TV is out and Youtube is the media of choice for middle school students. The stats back this up… from https://www.buzzfeed.com/annanorth/youtube-is-tee ns-top-social-network?utm_term=.nnl9LmDmk#.gv35bPVP2 While there are dozens of great ideas and suggestions for applying…
Provoking Purpose in Genius Hour: Using the UN Sustainable Development Goals to take action on real-world issues
Peel believes that “Together as a COMMUNITY of families, educators and leaders we share responsibility to INSPIRE our modern learners to be ACTIVE, CRITICALLY ENGAGED, GLOBAL CITIZENS.” (2017)One way to really elevate your Genius Hour projects and to hone in on the global citizenship component of the 6C’s of 21st century learning is to look at the UN Sustainable Development…
Entrepreneurial Adventure: Smoothies, Sustainability and Social Enterprise
Chuck Hopkins (2013), York University’s UNESCO Chair on Reorienting Teacher Education towards Sustainability recommends that our vision for education is simple: well-being for all, forever. With that in mind, I was pleasantly surprised when 50 Grades 6, 7 and 8 students from Morning Star Middle School’s Arts and Technology Program chose to create a ‘sustainable’…
Introducing Genius Hour to your class
What is “Genius Hour” you might be asking? You might have heard that Genius Hour is an hour a day where learners can work on their own independent projects…and that would be partly right. Genius Hour or 20% time is an approach to stimulate students’ (and their teachers!) passion for learning, to individualize programming, to…
Empowering Modern Learners of ATP7 with Sustainability, Creativity and Innovation 