Genius Hour Toolkit by Jon Craig https://padlet.com/jon_craig/ek6dy2hd1egr After reading, what were your three R's? 1. What resonated with you? 2. What did you resist? 3. What will cause you to realign your practices/approach? en-us 2018-03-02 13:44:51 UTC 2025-10-25 21:14:47 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Lightdecrease.png "it takes an incredible amount of drive, focus, and higher level thinking skills for a child to design and carry out a project or participate in Genius Hour or 20% time" https://padlet.com/jon_craig/ek6dy2hd1egr/wish/372182970 You might need to teach specific mini-lessons to help students who are hitting that 'brick wall']]> 2019-07-24 17:34:58 UTC https://padlet.com/jon_craig/ek6dy2hd1egr/wish/372182970 Resonate gmdejesus https://padlet.com/jon_craig/ek6dy2hd1egr/wish/372182980 Feedback can be informal and more conversational. Providing a creativity rubric can help students to self-assess.]]> 2019-07-24 17:35:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jon_craig/ek6dy2hd1egr/wish/372182980 RESIST https://padlet.com/jon_craig/ek6dy2hd1egr/wish/372183174 It's hard to give up time in a "tested" subject, especially in a school where traditionally the students don't perform well on standardized tests - to give students the time they would need in order to do Genius Hour effectively.

]]> 2019-07-24 17:37:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jon_craig/ek6dy2hd1egr/wish/372183174 Resonate ddonahue3 https://padlet.com/jon_craig/ek6dy2hd1egr/wish/372183190 Even though this article used CC standards, we felt that the point is that your are making the rigor challenging for the grade level you are teaching while addressing the standards your district uses. 

]]> 2019-07-24 17:37:31 UTC https://padlet.com/jon_craig/ek6dy2hd1egr/wish/372183190 Resonated clamagna https://padlet.com/jon_craig/ek6dy2hd1egr/wish/372183251 It won't be perfect at first, and outsiders may view it as chaos, but as you do it over again, you can refine things to make it fit your classroom.]]> 2019-07-24 17:38:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jon_craig/ek6dy2hd1egr/wish/372183251 Realign https://padlet.com/jon_craig/ek6dy2hd1egr/wish/372183272 Giving students more open choice on projects and providing more reflective feedback rather than heavy grading]]> 2019-07-24 17:38:20 UTC https://padlet.com/jon_craig/ek6dy2hd1egr/wish/372183272 Resonate https://padlet.com/jon_craig/ek6dy2hd1egr/wish/372183286 2019-07-24 17:38:30 UTC https://padlet.com/jon_craig/ek6dy2hd1egr/wish/372183286 Resist: https://padlet.com/jon_craig/ek6dy2hd1egr/wish/372183299 Students created the same visual representation and they all simply looked like posters. Each poster held a lot of information.]]> 2019-07-24 17:38:41 UTC https://padlet.com/jon_craig/ek6dy2hd1egr/wish/372183299 1. How to discover a passion from a consumable and developing that consumable to become a creation.(consumer to creator) https://padlet.com/jon_craig/ek6dy2hd1egr/wish/372183314 2019-07-24 17:38:58 UTC https://padlet.com/jon_craig/ek6dy2hd1egr/wish/372183314 Resist clamagna https://padlet.com/jon_craig/ek6dy2hd1egr/wish/372183343 Allowing alternative grouping because multiple people might view the project in slightly different way, so by letting them join together someone is giving part of their passion/vision up. ]]> 2019-07-24 17:39:22 UTC https://padlet.com/jon_craig/ek6dy2hd1egr/wish/372183343 Resonate jhoffman20 https://padlet.com/jon_craig/ek6dy2hd1egr/wish/372183353 LAUNCH cycle as a roadmap to develop a project.]]> 2019-07-24 17:39:30 UTC https://padlet.com/jon_craig/ek6dy2hd1egr/wish/372183353 Resonate: Guide students to think about their final product before they start. There are so many but short videos are good. https://padlet.com/jon_craig/ek6dy2hd1egr/wish/372183355 Resist: Why must the final product be a video?

Realign: Give students the information about the apps and styles of videos upfront so that they can make the best choice and not have to go back and start from the beginning again.]]> 2019-07-24 17:39:32 UTC https://padlet.com/jon_craig/ek6dy2hd1egr/wish/372183355 Resonate: https://padlet.com/jon_craig/ek6dy2hd1egr/wish/372183373 Students acquired great skills through the project. For example, collaboration, time management, visual representations, etc.]]> 2019-07-24 17:39:42 UTC https://padlet.com/jon_craig/ek6dy2hd1egr/wish/372183373 Resonate: An administrator did this with teachers and it really showed their passion for different aspects of innovative teaching and it was very successful https://padlet.com/jon_craig/ek6dy2hd1egr/wish/372183418 2019-07-24 17:40:16 UTC https://padlet.com/jon_craig/ek6dy2hd1egr/wish/372183418 2. The march madness bracket may not be the ideal way of discovering your passion if it is a full bracket or how the bracket gets filled can influence the outcome when discovering your passion. https://padlet.com/jon_craig/ek6dy2hd1egr/wish/372183423 2019-07-24 17:40:18 UTC https://padlet.com/jon_craig/ek6dy2hd1egr/wish/372183423 Resist ddonahue3 https://padlet.com/jon_craig/ek6dy2hd1egr/wish/372183439 Focused more on the reading element of CC while not addressing the communication elements equally. 

]]> 2019-07-24 17:40:32 UTC https://padlet.com/jon_craig/ek6dy2hd1egr/wish/372183439 Resist: would you have the same kickback from adults that you expect from your students, what if everyone does “buy into this” https://padlet.com/jon_craig/ek6dy2hd1egr/wish/372183465 2019-07-24 17:40:53 UTC https://padlet.com/jon_craig/ek6dy2hd1egr/wish/372183465 Realign clamagna https://padlet.com/jon_craig/ek6dy2hd1egr/wish/372183472 Seeing that it never works great the first time and that some kids will struggle with it gives me the confidence to try this in my class knowing that it's a learning process that will evolve over time]]> 2019-07-24 17:40:57 UTC https://padlet.com/jon_craig/ek6dy2hd1egr/wish/372183472 Realign: https://padlet.com/jon_craig/ek6dy2hd1egr/wish/372183474 Students should be able to have more choice in their projects. Instead of creating the poster, they should be able to choose how their information is presented.]]> 2019-07-24 17:41:00 UTC https://padlet.com/jon_craig/ek6dy2hd1egr/wish/372183474 Realign: give more choices for prompt and project https://padlet.com/jon_craig/ek6dy2hd1egr/wish/372183476 2019-07-24 17:41:02 UTC https://padlet.com/jon_craig/ek6dy2hd1egr/wish/372183476 3. There is opportunity to explore and create even if you don't think you have a passion for anything. https://padlet.com/jon_craig/ek6dy2hd1egr/wish/372183519 2019-07-24 17:41:37 UTC https://padlet.com/jon_craig/ek6dy2hd1egr/wish/372183519 Resist jhoffman20 https://padlet.com/jon_craig/ek6dy2hd1egr/wish/372183531 Social media apps can be a challenge to work with depending on the school's administration of them, how they filter and allow blogs, YouTube, etc. to be used by students.]]> 2019-07-24 17:41:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jon_craig/ek6dy2hd1egr/wish/372183531 Realign ddonahue3 https://padlet.com/jon_craig/ek6dy2hd1egr/wish/372183546 Your expectations and comfort level are going to be challenged. ]]> 2019-07-24 17:42:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jon_craig/ek6dy2hd1egr/wish/372183546 Realign jhoffman20 https://padlet.com/jon_craig/ek6dy2hd1egr/wish/372183625 Because the public social media has limitations within the school system, similar audience experience can be found using the school's LMS (Seesaw, Schoology, Classroom, etc)]]> 2019-07-24 17:43:17 UTC https://padlet.com/jon_craig/ek6dy2hd1egr/wish/372183625 When working with younger students, model and scaffold their ideas to help them get structured and focused. (our idea) tpulver1 https://padlet.com/jon_craig/ek6dy2hd1egr/wish/372183704
Pose open ended questions for them rather than questions that can be answered with a one word answer or a short phrase.]]> 2019-07-24 17:44:18 UTC https://padlet.com/jon_craig/ek6dy2hd1egr/wish/372183704