This semester, you will have the opportunity to create a Passion Project! You are GENIUSES and the World expects your contribution. What are you going to contribute?
The purpose of a Passion Project is to empower YOU to connect with your BEST IDEAS. By allowing you time to connect with your best ideas, I want you to experience learning at its finest - encouraging risk-taking, embracing 'failures' and sharing in creative break-throughs.
This concept is inspired by Google. Google preaches what is called the 80/20 philosophy. Google employees are asked to use 80% of their time on the job they were hired to do, and in exchange, they are given 20% of their work time working on anything they want that they think will make a difference. Can you find an hour a week to work on your passion?
Still asking "Why?" Watch the following videos to inspire you:
The purpose of a Passion Project is to empower YOU to connect with your BEST IDEAS. By allowing you time to connect with your best ideas, I want you to experience learning at its finest - encouraging risk-taking, embracing 'failures' and sharing in creative break-throughs.
This concept is inspired by Google. Google preaches what is called the 80/20 philosophy. Google employees are asked to use 80% of their time on the job they were hired to do, and in exchange, they are given 20% of their work time working on anything they want that they think will make a difference. Can you find an hour a week to work on your passion?
Still asking "Why?" Watch the following videos to inspire you:
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21st Century Learning Skills:
Students will use 21st Century Learning Skills while creating their Passion Projects. For more information regarding these critical skills, click HERE
These skills include:
Communication:
Students will use 21st Century Learning Skills while creating their Passion Projects. For more information regarding these critical skills, click HERE
These skills include:
Communication:
- Read with understanding
- Communicate effectively in a variety of ways
- Speak so others understand
- Respond to feedback appropriately
- Listen actively
- Observe critically
- Ask appropriate/stimulating questions
- Use communication for many purposes
- Work together in a team
- Learn cooperatively with others
- Value and respect the opinion and work of others
- Solve conflict and compromise
- Share responsibility and contribute equally in a group
- Display originality and inventiveness in my work
- Develop new ideas and communicate them to others
- Be open to other’s ideas
- Act on creative ideas
- See failure as an opportunity to learn – I understand that it is a long-term process of small successes and frequent mistakes
- Use a wide range of idea creation techniques (such as brainstorming)
- Elaborate, refine, analyze and evaluate my own ideas
- Be open and responsive to new and diverse perspectives
- Incorporate feedback from others into my work
- Define a problem
- Generate and test hypotheses and predictions
- Summarize and take notes
- Determine relationships between things (cause/effect)
- Make decisions
- Interpret information and draw conclusions
- Reflect critically on learning experiences and processes
- Identify and ask questions
- Evaluate evidence, arguments, claims, and beliefs
- Expand on previous knowledge
Project Based Learning:
Project Based Learning (PBL) is a teaching method in which students learn by actively engaging in real-world and personally meaningful projects. PBL includes: Escape Rooms/Forensic Scenes, STEM Challenges, Critical/Creative Thinking Exercises, Deductive Reasoning Tasks, and more... all of which you can respond to from any location on a computer or tablet.