Starting to Think About Technology

Starting to Think About Technology.

Welcome to a Summer of Learning

Welcome to a Summer of Learning.

Welcome to a Summer of Learning

Welcome to a Summer of Learning.

One of my Favourite apps.

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If you want to encourage collaboration, presentation or creative thinking skills, then this is a great app. Easy to use with so many possibilities. A good option for Sharing our Genius Hour Projects.

Thanks for sharing Paul. Love your work.

One of my Favouite Apps

One of my favourite apps.
If you want to encourage collaboration, presentation or creative thinking skills, then this is a great app to use. This is just one option available to present our Genius Hour Projects.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=711752452229767&id=414657835272565

Thanks Paul for sharing. Love your work.

Stay or Change

Having just returned from America on a study tour for technology in education and experiencing all it has to offer, this post really resonates with me. Take a risk, go for the curved ball and I don’t think you’ll be disappointed, after all tomorrow is a new day and you will find like-minded people along the way!

a splendid adventure

curveballs.

The white and red stitched round blazing through diamond dust headed right for its leather home.

Curveballs start off at one height, one velocity, one direction. You see it, prepare for it, make adjustments to your position to make contact with it, and then it does what every good curveball does. It drops.

The thing about curveballs is you don’t know it’s a curveball till it’s, well, curved. Changed its direction, dropped a few inches, thrown you off your game. At that point there’s nothing you can do to change its direction or make it do what it seemed like it was doing before.

Once the curveball has revealed itself to be the curveball you were not expecting, you have a choice.
You can keep your position and go out swinging, maybe get lucky and tip it off.
Or, you can change positions, drop your chin, and go in…

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23 Videos That Sparked Genius Hour Thinking, Collaboration, and Actions

23 Videos That Sparked Genius Hour Thinking, Collaboration, and Actions.

23 Videos That Sparked Genius Hour Thinking, Collaboration, and Actions

This series of videos is very inspirational. #GeniusHour #GeniusHourJourney #GHJ

Today is a Great Day for Learning

cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Jurgen Appelo

In our classroom this year my colleague Gallit Zvi and I used many youtube videos to inspire resiliency, grit, and hope in our students prior to guiding them in formulating their inquiry questions about their passions and wonders during our weekly Genius Hour time.  Many of the videos were shared with me through wonderful connections I made with educator learners on Twitter, Facebook, and at various workshops.  I love my PLN!  However I am proud to say students and teachers in our room inspired each other too.  Some of our work is shared on this list too.

Enjoy the list and please share your own favourites!

Sincerely,

Hugh McDonald

1.  Creativity Requires Time

2.  TMB Panyee FC Short Film

3.  Girls First Ski Jump

4.  15-Yr-Old Kelvin Doe Wows M.I.T.

5.  Obvious to you. Amazing to others…

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