Sentences with phrase «about genius hour»

Teacher Hugh McDonald has put together a succinct list of 10 things he likes about The Genius Hour Guidebook.

So many amazing ideas and resources were shared tonight about Genius Hour and the archive is outstanding!

We'll offer an 11th reason: Throughout our book, we share Hugh's passion for and insights about Genius Hour!

Gallit: I first learned about Genius Hour on Twitter.

We are both so passionate about Genius Hour and found that it not only benefited our students but also changed everything for us!

I was working on my own genius hour project in the front of the class today by creating a presentation that I'm going to give at #edcampwaller this weekend about genius hour.

In my session I will be sharing about genius hour, linking to some people who are already big international advocates such as Graham Andre and Joy Kirr (thanks to both in helping me prepare for this session).

This evening I had the pleasure of interviewing Paul Solarz about Genius Hour (aka Passion Projects) in his classroom.

A.J. Juliani also wrote a recent book about Genius Hour and 20 % Time in education.

Genius Hour Video Interview # 1 — Paul Solarz This evening I had the pleasure of interviewing Paul Solarz about Genius Hour (aka Passion Projects) in his classroom.

-- Learned about genius hour from the books The Passion - Driven Classroom: A Framework for Teaching & Learning and The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child

I blog about genius hour, ed tech, and ways to make learning more engaging and fun.

The presentation hits the highlights of all my genius hour blog posts and answers just about every question that you may have about genius hour.

From personalized learning, I learned about Genius Hour, an educational trend adopted from developers at Google who are given 20 percent of their time to develop their own «passion projects.»

Curious about Genius Hour, in the workplace or the classroom?

Not exact matches

PDX — It doesn't take a Genius to realize from my statements that i have read things other than the Bible you moron i have spent many hours reading and listening to scientists about their theories on the big bang, i have listened to ideas from the most revered scientists including Hawking and others, and they all admit that there are holes in their theories, that nothing fully explains their big bang theory, the physics doesn't add up let alone the concept, there are plenty of scientists hard at work trying to make the numbers fit and the theory hold weight but if you ask any of them they can not give you the answers and the reason being... there are none, the theory doesn't work, If by the observable laws of Physics, Matter in this Universe can not be created or destroyed, you can only change its state, i.e. solid to liquid, to gas... to energy... There is no explanation for how an entire reality full of Matter can be created out of nothing... Scientists know this... idiots that are atheists and simply would rather NOT believe that their lives and actions they take within their lifespan are being witnessed by an Omnipotent God do not WANT to believe... but Your belief in God does not change whether or not he exists you will be judged.

Though, if you're hoping to rant for hours about Kanye's genius, it's probably best to wait for Yeezy.dating to come out.

With twelve different comedy genius directors including Peter Farrelly («Dumb & Dumber», «There's Something About Mary», «Shallow Hal»), Steve Carr («Daddy Day Care», «Dr Dolittle 2»), Steven Brill («Little Nicky») and Brett Ratner («Rush Hour») to name but a few and eight different writers, this jaw - droppingly crude and often obscene movie features a diverse star - studded cast, both British and American, who have banded together to shock you in the most hilarious ways you can think of.

About a half - hour into the film, after Allen establishes his standard, complicated love story, this time involving a «genius» philosophy professor named Abe Lucas (played by Joaquin Phoenix, with a heck of a gut), Jill, his brightest pupil (Emma Stone), who says she's in love with her boyfriend, and Rita, a married professor (Parker Posey), who all teach / attend the same Newport, R.I. university, «Irrational Man» takes a rather dark and very welcome turn.

Similar to other genius creatives like J.J. Abrams or Guillermo del Toro or James Cameron, he's someone I could listen to talk about any / everything for hours on end.

Students around the globe are engaged in genius hour activities about their passions and are given voice and choice in how they show their learning.

Personalized education comes alive in a classroom when Genius Hour invites students to engage with projects about which they are truly passionate.

There is a lot of talk about the «Genius Hour» — one example is the 20 % of work time that Google gives its employees to do «blank canvas» work, they are passionate about (ergo Gmail!).

«Genius Hour is not about a quick answer that is regurgitated in front of the class,» notes Shaelynn Fransworth.

This month, our top teachers from around the globe talk about how 20 % time or Genius Hour inspires curiosity, innovation and creativity, and enhances knowledge in students.

I talked to a parent (who is also an elementary teacher) just last week about her daughter's experience with Genius Hour.

I wrote a post about how to make time for genius hour.

Hear more about this project and how you can get started with my FREE video course on 20 % Time projects and Genius Hour.

* Update: If you'd like to learn more about running your own 20 % Project — check out my free video course on 20 % Time and Genius Hour.

She has developed professional development sessions for teachers about Blogging, Blended Learning, Genius Hour and Makerspaces.

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No one wanted to miss a word of what we were about to discuss... today ended the wonder... today we would answer the question «What is Genius Hour?»

Denise: I give students two periods a week, about 85 minutes, to work on their genius hour projects.

Last year, Gallit gave the students one hour per week and expected them to present about every fourth block, so that they roughly had 3 hours of Genius Hour time before they had to share their learning with the clhour per week and expected them to present about every fourth block, so that they roughly had 3 hours of Genius Hour time before they had to share their learning with the clHour time before they had to share their learning with the class.

«Maybe next activity time we will do Genius Hour,» I said to them, marveling about how creative and curious they were.

Tell the students they are going to do a group «Genius Hour» and that they can learn whatever they want to about the topic / problem.

Summary: This article talks about the use of «Genius Hours» as a way to personalize learning and develop a sense of community in the classroom.

I created a genius hour (20 % time) for each trimester where students researched a topic they were interested in and were passionate about.

A «Genius Hour» is and should be about recognizing things our students are good at and sharing them with classmates, making it clear that there is no hierarchy of intelligences, only multiple intelligences.

There has been a lot of talk lately about implementing a «Genius Hour» with students.

So, with an idea in hand and a plan for finding the time, what will you do about adding Genius Hour into your curriculum?

The policy has worked so well that about 50 % of Google's successful projects have been direct outcomes of the Genius Hour, including innovations like Gmail and Google News.

Last month I met her at a conference, and she told me about a smart and simple innovation that she calls the «Genius Hour.»

Gallit and Denise love reading new books over the summer, and of course, «we are always keen to check out new posts about what folks have been doing with Genius Hour and what their plans for next year's Genius Hour blocks are.»

Since then, thousands of educators around the world has learned about and has implemented Genius Hour in their classrooms.

- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects

Artist Richard Wilson reflects, «Edward was a genius, he was the only real practitioner at the time who was documenting professionally artists» work, he was in big demand, and the fabulous thing was that Edward could really bring emotion into the photographs... He would come in and he would look at the piece of work for about half an hour, he would then set up and he'd go click, and that's it, one image.»