Genius Hour – Mr van W's Class

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Flipped Classroom, Gamification, Genius Hour, Professional Development

Genius Hour in our Flipped Classroom: First impressions

May 4, 2017 — 3 Comments

TTT Episode 69: Education Against The Machine and Note Taking Technology
A return to form for Pete (@mr_van_w) and John (@jfcatto). Pete highlights another one of his blog posts based on his experiences at CONASTA. He considers the seemingly misfitted keynotes for the audience and the value of "outsiders" on the education conversation. John discusses ways to train students to effectively use technology for taking notes […]
TTT Episode 68: Action Research, Box Ticking and ECT Advice
In this barely-an-episode-filler John (@jfcatto) introduces the idea of conducting an Action Research to demonstrate standards of teaching. Something we may be hearing him bang on a bit more over the next year or so. Pete (@mr_van_w) checks the TTT mailbox (teacherstalkingteaching@gmail.com) and answers some questions from Early Career Teacher Uten.
TTT Episode 67: Teacher-Centered Education and the Role and Value of Educators
Pete (@mr_van_w) and John (@jfcatto) mispronounce some words and take a guess at some acronyms that they probably should know but apparently don't. Eventually John looks at a great article about education being more "teacher-centred". Insofar as that education should primarily support teachers to do their job and do their job well. Pete then […]
TTT Episode 66: Learning Styles, Drugs, Money and Doctors
A milestone episode: One tenth the number of The Beast \m/ John (@jfcatto) examines the alluring yet non-demonstrable concept f VARK Learning Styles. A beautiful and empowering theory that doesn't seem to hold water. The boys spruik Mini Gear as a scaffolded STEM PBL project. Pete (@mr_van_w) addresses some issues that have had him thinking recently. […]