Vrain Waves: Teaching Conversations with Minds Shaping Education

AJ Juliani on Genius Hour, PBL, Design Thinking and Student Inquiry

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Connect with Vrain Waves

Twitter: @VrainWaves | Becky Twitter: @BeckyEPeters | Ben Twitter: @mrkalb

Connect with AJ Juliani

Twitter: @ajjuliani | Website: http://ajjuliani.com/ | Books: AJ Juliani on Amazon

Links & Show Notes

  • Skip to Minute 9 to get to the Interview with AJ Juliani
  • What is Genius Hour? (01:33)
  • Out of Our Heads and Into the Classroom (02:07)
  • Structure (02:30)
  • Getting Started with Genius Hour
  • Genius Hour Blueprint
  • Numbers app template
  • Inspiration (03:45) | Kid President on Empowerment | Jack Andraka TED Talk | Caine’s Arcade | Genius Hour Examples
  • Authentic Audience (05:17)
  • Three N’s (06:46) - What did you learn that’s new, what do you need from me, what are you going to do next?
  • #20time / #geniushour
  • AJ Juliani Intro (9:07) - Director of Technology and Innovation at Centennial School District
  • Genius Hour, what it is, how AJ started with it (10:40)
  • Read Daniel Pink’s book Drive - Autonomy, Mastery, Purpose
  • The 20% Project blog post | #20Time
  • Joy Kirr, Gallit Zvi, Hugh McDonald, Denise Krebs
  • The Genius Hour Manifesto
  • Examples of Genius Hour projects (15:28)
  • How Genius Hour works (17:42) Planning → Topic Selection → Pitch → Research → Making → Presentations → Reflection
  • Topic Selection: March Madness Bracket for ideas
  • Shark Tank Pitch - 1 minute
    1. What they’re going to learn / make
      1. Why they’re going to learn / make it
        1. How they’re going to learn / make it
          1. What will success look like
          2. Mapping to Standards (21:12)
          3. Managing Time (22:53)
          4. Getting started with Inquiry-based learning (25:35)
          5. Get kids comfortable talking without the teacher asking a bunch of questions: Discussion games, sentence stems, fishbowls, symposiums, etc
          6. Genius Hour / Passion Projects for teachers (28:34)
          7. Teacher Innovation Pitch in Centennial SD
          8. Student Innovation Lab / Centennial X
          9. Design Thinking (31:50)
          10. Launch book | co-authored with John Spencer
          11. Chris Lehmann quote: “If you assign a project and get back 30 of the exact same thing, that’s not a project, that’s a recipe.
          12. HBR Article on Design Thinking
          13. Stanford d.school
          14. IDEO
          15. Failures to watch out for with Design Thinking & Genius Hour (36:08)
            1. Managing expectations & building early
            2. Project Global Inform
            3. Prototype early
              1. Trust & Relationships - be self-reflective
              2. Compliance - Engagement - Empowerment Continuum (42:34)
              3. Empower book
              4. Developing choice & decision skills (44:47)
              5. 14,000 hours with students - how much of that time do we give them practice making choices and decisions?
              6. Other podcasts / interviews with AJ
              7. Cult of Pedagogy | AJ’s podcast, Inside Innovation | TLTalk Radio
              8. Homework for teachers (47:46)
              9. What were the last 5 things you learned and why were you excited about learning them? Then, think about how you learn best, and then think about your classroom
              10. Ajjuliani.com - @ajjuliani on all social media
              11. Post interview takeaways with Becky & Ben (49:34)
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