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I have already implemented the Genius Hour in the classroom, making Origami sessions, Creative writing, making crystals, and a few others. It has been made one step at a time, allowing the kids to choose their topic, time and duration, dynamic, and a new learning dimension. My role as a teacher in Genius Hour is to create an environment that allows students to discover their interests and abilities and also to provide great feedback on work that has been produced. There are kids that naturally take the roles of  the  Leader, the  Manager, the Producer or the Designer

Those roles may change as the project progresses.

The leader might also have a hand at making, but this person must have a vision or goal for the group.

When students are working on their projects, as a teacher I have to be there to guide them through each step and make sure they are staying on track with their work.

Teachers should be extremely approachable, and willing to listen and respond to students’ ideas and questions.

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The genius hour is a brilliant idea that I can implement in my classroom. I can get children passionate teaching to believe in their dreams.

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I think genius hour is a good initiative to encourage creativity, self-awareness, involvement. I think I will put into practice .

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Boosting Entrepreneurship with theatre acting behaviour while using IT tools. I love to treat my students like managers of start-up companies into classroom, they love to, they feel like VIP and that is motivational care! Be inspiring!

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Actually  this  is my first time to learn about Genius Hour. Actually  I try  to motivate my pupils and to encourage them. So when we  were just a new member in e twinning two years  ago, I asked by them to be more creative because the project was their''s . So they had and realized very good ideas. I often try to encourage  especially pupils that are not confident to them selves . I  also say to them : Everybody is valuable in something , may be you are not good in Math , but you are very good in something else. But being not very good in Math  , does not mean that you have to  surrender , nut to give your best.

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Yes we have notice the talent in students and improve that talent, or implement dynamics to improve their talent,, by the failures they get knowledge and experience in the road to  get their goals we have to let them prove that
the failures are klowedege in action ..

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Jeane de Fatima, Rio de Janeiro - Brasil

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Jeane de Fatima, Rio de Janeiro - Brasil

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Fernando Pessoa
"To be happy is to find strength in forgiveness, hopes in battles, security on the stage of fear, love in disagreements. It is to thank God every minute for the miracle of life. "
- Fernando Pessoa

- http://kdfrases.com/frase/100576

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I would definitely implement it and would recommend it and my colleagues. I think that students will love that

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For sure I can implement  Genius Hour in my classroom. Next school year I will implement and try to see the results of this approach. In my opinion, they will be more motivated to the classroom Let´s see. This school year I am working in European Projects and don't have the possibility to implement right now.

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This is the first time I've talk about the Genius Hour because I have not knew it before today. I will try it the next year even if I don’t know the way to realize something new with this instrument  in my classes. My students are 11-14 aged and they are far young to argue seriously about their plans and their future.  I’ll look how use Genius Hour in my school, it could be interessant.

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I think Genius Hour is a very good idea and i plan to make it a regular time every Friday. Students feel more involved if their other talents are appreciated and its an opportunity to show their skills and teach others

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We have to have a good learning atmosfere, making students work more collaborative with each other, implementing various activities in wich all students can participate equaly sharing ideas

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First of all, I take time to listen to students opinion. I believe that is important to make students fell confident to expose their opinions. If we succeed in creating a really cooperative atmosphere, students will fell protagonists of the learning process. Moreover I try to propose activity close to student's real life to stimulate their participation.

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As teachers, we can create an environment that drives passion by doing a few things:
Allow time for collaboration using social media.
Foster creativity
Allow time for play. Creating a positive learning environment is just as important as teaching basic skills.
Allow students time to “get in the flow”. Similar to an athlete getting in the zone, teachers can create passion by creating projects that allow students minds to use emotional connections.
Find out about your students interests.
Inspiration is more than just knowledge, it is about emotional connections.
Encourage innovation.
Allow time for your own learning

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I have never heard about this project before -Genius hour - but I find it interesting. I think it is easy to try to implement it in our classes, not always but now and then. I will try to implement it.

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I knew about Genius Hour in Google but I didn't knew somebody was applying the idea in school. Definitely I will implement it next year. I have talked to my principal and he also think it's a good idea. Every year, in my 17-18th years old class I develop a paralel project chosen by students. The last one was the organization of a Science Coffee.

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Students should always be encouraged. Each of their little progress is rewarded as a sign that even the smallest effort leads to an appreciable results

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I Knew about google practice and I had talked to the students about it, but never came to my mind the idea of doing it in my classroom.

I would like to try it but I think I would need the collaboration of the rest of the teachers, as my subject it is only three hours a week and there is not enough time to develop a meaningful project, or so I think.

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I find Genius Hour a very good idea. I will try to implement it in my classroom!

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I have not heard of Genius Hour before. I think it is quite difficult to implement in Romanian education, but not impossible.

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I haven't known that it's called the Genius Hour, but I offer my students to teach the group something they think they are use in learning.

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I haven't known that it's called the Genius Hour, but I offer my students to teach the group something they think they're profies in. Sometimes they try to explain a grammar topic or something like that.  Such activities are ones of the most popular among my students.

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This is the first time when I hear about the Genius Hour. I would implement projects in my class as a part of this programme.

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I'm very curious to know more about this project Genius Hour...I usually implement eTwinning project in my classes because this kind of projects help me to get passion and motivation in my students even though I try to get passionate them through different types of activities that are based on music, games and websites that teenagers use daily.

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We try to find tasks and projects that are important for the pupils. We think that is the path to walk if we, as teachers, want pupils with passion, interest and resilience. So we work together, every subject, or most of them, in project and tasks that matters. And matters i the world outside school! We have to have recipients to the projects; people in the community/municipality, entrepreneurs in the local area, parents, other students in other schools When the students know their work is going to be seen and used by interested people, they try again and again and the result will matter. Not for the school´s sake but for their own sake.
The result should be valuable for somebody else to really matter. As Daniel H Pink says: our motivation rises when it´s about something larger than ourselves.

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This is the very first time I've heard about the Genius Hour. But I heard about similar movements from time to time in the past.
The idea is simple but amazing at the same time At school my students and I arranged to work on themes they appreciate and that are particular relevant to them.
As design plays the main role in their course of study, we've decided to discover the life of some brilliant and successful designers to boost their sense of entrepeurship that is accompanied by all the practice they do when attending laboratories.
All this work will help them to improve their sense of being part of a society where they can make decisions by themselves and work on their projects. That's all hard work. In all this I don't know if I have time to try the Genius Hour but I'll surely give my students time to let me know which aspects, projects they would like to work on at a deeper level so that learning English and realizing for instance objects of design will be more interesting. For sure all this will broaden their horizons

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I remember once I had 2 students that loved making short rhyming poems. I asked them to make some, concerning our lesson. They did and it engaged them more on the lesson. We, teachers, must give students the chance to add their passion in school work.

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There is big problem about time and following curriculum in my schools, even we do a lot of experiments in the classroom it is not easy to find and pursue passion.  I will try to start Genius Hour from next year, make it kind of project to present at the end. Although I am sure that most of my students will pick subjects around motorbikes.

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I realize it is important to implement Genius Hour in my class. I would ask pupils to write with his own words a paper about what passionate and if they want, to share with their partners. May be, they will find someone who also have a similar interest that can enrich tehmselves

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What a britlliant idea - Genius Hour. I´m going to use it as a project work in my language classes. My 8th grade students (15-years old) are rather reluctant to reveal and talk about their future plans or imagine about their future. Genius Hour gives an opportunity them to imagine as geniuses, millionaires, etnrepreneurs etc. and just to give as many good and fantastic ideas on this topic as possible. I hope it opens the students and gives them more positive attitude if they can think about themselves as geniuses or millionaires.

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It is the first time i head of Genius Hour. It is a good idee, i like. Students should be encouraged and promoted.

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I had never heard of Genious Hour before. I do think it can work at school, but why not giving students 10 or 20% of school time as a whole, independent of any subject?
Students could be warned in advance of this activity and they could take to school anything related to their passion, like for instance a drawing book and pencils, different kinds of materials for craftwork, imagination would be the limit, following of course certain principles so as not to disturb others.
It sounds like a great idea!

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I never heard Genius Hour. It is very interesting.
I think I practise with my pupils next year.

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I didn't know Genius Hour Project and I find it really interesting. we all know that letting people (and our students, of course) free of devoting some time to activities they love very much, it'd increase their motivation, it'd make them be happier, more active and creative. It'd increase their problem solving's competences as well as creativity and sense of initiative. It is hard for me to think about applying it in my own classrooms as I teach in prison and in order to accomplish this kind of activities, students'd need access to any kind of resources thay may need, including technical devices and internet connection. Unfortunately we are not allowed to that.

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It sounds very interesting to introduce in the class the genius hour and give students the chance to care about their passion. In my opinion, nowadays, school removes them from their dreams because of the tough curricilum and pression!

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This is the first time I've heard of this approach and I would like to learn much more about. Any way, however, while not knowing it, I often try to stimulate the creativity of my students, making them realize activities involving the construction of a 'product' that bring out their passions and their skills in the fields of their interest (gastronomy, promotion of local products, etc.)

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Genius Hour is very good idea, I have to try it in my classroom!

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We haven't implemented Genius Hour in our classrooms yet. Getting children passionate is about implementing enforced differentiation, I think. During differentiation time, time slots where 2 teachers are available for one class group (of 24 students), pupils can choose to follow a talent-based optional course such as Multimedia, Digital Technology, Cookery, Nature & Sports, Initiation Spanish, ... instead of following the regular course of French, Maths, ...

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Genius Hour boosts independent and creative work, then for students it's a helpful idea to develop their inner potential thorugh this strategy.

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It sound really interesting and good! I had never heard about Genius Hour before. I will try and analyze the results

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Do you think you can implement Genius Hour in your classroom? What can you do at school to get children passionate?
I did not know Genius Hour. It sounds interesting, but I should know more about it.
I think it should not be so easy to apply. In Italy teaching is quite conservative and this transforms often students in passive people. Sometimes they prefer a passive lesson than one in which they have to be the protagonists. At least I experimented this in upper secondary school.
So we should prepare students to activities like these and make them aware about the potentialities of this methodology. Using their passions could get it easier.
We teachers are sometimes scared about activities not strictly connected to curriculum or to contents in general, but we have to find the positive things also in such methods.

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Very good idea with Genius Hour in my classroom!They love art..so we will paint the future world .

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We already make alike activities in our school. For instance in my everyday classes I let my students play the game they like most or if it's not a game, their favourite activity - watering plants... whatever...

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Genius Hour seems to be a valuable method for students, so I think I'll make use of it. According to my experience students don't have much stamina and it would be beneficial if I could help them to unfold their passion. Then every effort would be bearable.

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I always try to encourage free thinking and new views about different topics, so that pupils can find their own  ways to understand the world they live in. It's a way  to experiment new mind paths, to  copy real situations and difficulties through the setting out of planned events.

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I never heard about Genius Hour before but I think it is a great idea to let students think about projects focused on their passion. We should arrange our classrooms and lessons, even set activities, to allow students to  explore, learn, research, create, invent or follow any passion that they have in life. This would be of great motivation for them and would surely work positively on their self-esteem.. I think for example, of a literature class after analysing a play or a poetry they could try to represent, act or even draw freely their interpretation, each student according to their ability or possibility

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I„m a primary school teacher and now my students are 10-11 years old. I think is very important that vteacher to encourage their students, to trust in them, to envolve them in the project they like in to listen them to do things they like to do more.

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It would probably make students investigate and research a topic they are passionate about. On the other hand, I am not sure if students will stay focused on the task as they are too young or just lose time inefficiently. I will have to inform and read more about the concept about Genius hour and maybe if time allows   give it a try.

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Even when the children are very young, teachers can implement the 'Genius Hour' in the teaching and learning. Teachers can follow the children's lead, find out what their interests, likes and dislikes are and set up the activities to follow their interests. When the children are passionate and motivated to learn about what they are interested in, then their outcomes improve and they start making a rapid progress. Teachers need to follow pupils' interests and give them a voice in order to make them passionate learners. It is important to use provocative thinking to get the children interested and encourage them to explore.

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I think I could use Genius Hour to implement 3D printing in my classes.
The idea is that the students come with their projects and can use the 3D print to realize them.
To connect the activity with my lesson, I teach German, the students could present their work using the foreign language

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This was the 1st time I heard about Genius Hour and I think it is an awesome idea. I will try to think of ways of implementing it in a first grade class. It's difficult considering the lack of resources but I guess I'll try something with Arts and Crafts.

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I tried Genius hour in one of my classes but the outcome was not so good

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I;m not sure I could apply Genius Hour in my classroom.... Still thinking how I could convinve my students that it's not a loss of their time and money

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I;m not sure I could apply Genius Hour in my classroom.... Still thinking how I could convinve my students that it's not a loss of their time and money... I tried project-based learning and I'm not giving up on it! They loved it. But to do something that is completely irrelevant to the course's objectives? Hmmmm

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I;m not sure I could apply Genius Hour in my classroom.... Still thinking how

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I;m not sure I could apply

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I;m not sure I could apply Geniou

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I didn't know Genius Hours. It is an inspiring project that keeps your brain going

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The genius hour is a brilliant idea that I can implement in my classroom. I can get children passionate teaching to believe in their dreams.

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The genius hour is indeed a tool to digitally support teachers in stimulating their students positive interaction and active motivation. I will try it, of course!

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I made the experiences "I'm a genius" it was wonderful, I learn a lot of my pupils. Thanks a lot Kornelia for this opportunity. I'm a etwinniner so my method in PBL, the way to improve skills in a special way.

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PBL - Project - Based Learning can motivate children about successful & creative work. It's a motto of my team. Thank you very much for the nice thoughts above, dear Kornelia & colleagues! :)

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I liked the ideas Kornelia offered us in his video.I would like to be more aware of this but at school we are often in a hurry to cover the curricular; no extra time to let them research or do what they are passioned about.Praising students, creating a friendly atmosphere is a necessity in developing an entrepreneurial min set.
Yes, maybe I will allow 10 % of the lesson that students could reflect, explore of what they have learned or to deepen some ideas.Genius Hour looks interesting.

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Genius our will be great to integrate in any program, I will definitely use it the soonest!

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I never heard about Genuis Hour. I want to propose it to them, because we always do projects. Definitely, it will be a good idea use it!

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Genius Hour will be great to integrate in my lessons. Right now we are learning about programming perhaps I can motivate them further.

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Our students always work on project, challenges, research and so on.
Genius Hour will be great to integrate in any program, I will definitely use it the soonest!

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I really like the idea of Genius Hour, but I feel the need to investigate it a bit more before I can state with certainty whether I can implement it or not in my classes. One thing I know for sure. Since I teach English the only limitation would be that their "passion", their "driving force" would have to be in English. Then another limitation is that I would have to approve of their investigation. For examle, if a student is very passioante about gambling, well I would not be able to allow that since it discloses an "issue" which is at stake and an issue which is too "big" for me to tackle. Regulations in Italy are pretty strict. Last but not least I would have to inform parents and make sure they approve of this approach which is different from the one they "may" want for their children. Parents can be very "fierce" and "intrusive". I would need to expalin what it is, obviously.

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I really loved the idea of Genius Hour so I hope I can develop it some way some time.
- Positive reinforcement
- Reward coupons
- Let learning happen
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I strongly believe that these are key aspects

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Allow time for play. Creating a positive learning environment is just as important as teaching basic skills.

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Allow time for play. Creating a positive learning environment is just as important as teaching basic skills.

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María, Gran Canaria

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I try to encourage my little studente with words of encouragement.
They like to be stimulated.

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Genius Hour..........  a very interesting idea!.
I'll try it with my students.
Teachers should  always
boost student's talents and passions

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Although we struggle with the curriculum trying to catch up the books' units, I think we can find some time during the week to implement the Genius Hour in the classroom. Pupils usually feel free to express themselves into a project, but this happens when they are involved in a specific project. Dedicate 20 minutes from time to time to the Genius Hour could be a challenge for them and for me as well.

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I appreciate idea, I'll work to implement it at my school next year

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Thank you for the information concerning Genius Hour. Although I've heard about the idea before from my Norwegian friend using it in her classroom, now it seems really clear and convincing.  I think I'll try it during the tutorial lesson with my class.

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I can implement Genius Hour in my classrooms to get children passionate. Anymore I think that throught role playing they can share their passions to the classroom.

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I've not heard of Genius Hour before but after doing a Hours of code few times every past year I've noticed the impack it has on students interests so I like to do a Genius Hour. I will give students projects for examination f.ex. do a research on linking math to their interests and find multiple presentation. Keeping the motto "follow your heart <3" and "look for the wonders of life and enjoy"

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I did not know about Genius Hour. But it is interesting. It could be good give chance and we encourage our pupils explore, create and learn by their own skills and tempo.

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I like this programme and I never heard about it. It is so inspiring because most of the time teacher leading the way with passion project but come from book.
Honestly, I think that teachers should provides a set amount of time for the students to work on their passion projects.  Students are then challenged to explore something to do a project over that they want to learn about. How can I do? Encourage them to develop their ideas and letting free time to them.

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Never heard about Genius Hour but seems to be very interesting.
Students need to know that they are doing something meaningful  Real tasks and amusing activities help and I think that motivation is necessary. I also  believe that teachers should change  the activities to stimulate their interest, as each student is different from the others and has  a different  intelligence.

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I didn't hear Genius Hour. To get children passionate must we should encourage them to follow their dreams

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I didn't know about Genius Hour, but I think it was like "Code Hour" .
This is an example how my students can explore, learn, create, follow their passion.
https://youtu.be/BrXjAd-xptk

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I did not know about Genius Hour but is is interesting and students should be encouraged to explore, to create, that is why I always try to find such activities or project for my students, even if they are very young now.

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I did not know about  Genius time.
I would love to learn more and implement  my knowledge in the classroom.

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Never heard about Genius Hour at school. I found it very interesting. Surely, before introducing it in my class I have to read a lot about it. I found very interesting the above link and the titles of the books which deal about the G.H.
I think I'll start letting the students speak about their interests and projects, than we will find the way to develop them

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I didn't know Genius Hour. Good idea to give students the opportunity to learn about what interests them. Of course, the topics are to be created with some purpose in mind, and the teacher has to give some guidance, but there's a great choice over a range of topics.

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ı didn't know Genius Hour. very creative . I like this.

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To this day I had never heard of the Genius Hour project. I try to get my students to work on an inquiry based learning basis, to do research and use their creativity and to innovate in their final presentations, but I do not leave 20% of the class time to do an individual project focused on a theme that awakens their passion. Maybe if I make better time management I can implement the Genius Hour project. I'll try, certainly.

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I didn't know Genius Hour but I think I adopt this solution with my students.
how can I  transform my classroom into a place where students want to come in and learn? I often give some time to students to cultivate their passions or to study alternative disciplines

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Thank you for the information concerning Genius Hour. Although I've heard about the idea before from my Norwegian friend using it in her classroom, now it seems really clear and convincing. I think I'll try it during the tutorial lesson with my class.

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I did not know the Genius Hour, but it seems to be a very interesting idea. I think I can implement Genius Hour in the classroom.I'll read some more and define how to implement.

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I tell my adult students that their notebooks are images of their work, images of themselves.