Genius Hour with 8th graders at MVS!



Today was the first day we started our genius hour projects.  Many students had great ideas already of what they want to study and create.  Some were stuck.  "I'm passionate about myself," said one girl, not sure how that could translate into a project  One boy wondered if he could create a dish.  He meant food.  Two boys want to work together on a rubik's cube project.  The challenge was getting those who had an idea to start to think about what they would produce and how they would get there, and those who were fine not even opening their computers to think about what they could learn about.  Accountability will be key, for sure!

So, to learn more about genius hour, I watched a webinar, and 20 minutes in it turns into a commercial for a course.  And not a free course, but one with a $30 discount IF YOU ACT RIGHT NOW and buy the course  So many blogs I have read lately have turned into ads for the TPT store.  It's aggravating.  Call it an ad, if that is what it is.

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