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With only six Fridays left to work on our Genius Hour Project, Kallie and I plan to continue working. We are doing "random acts of kindness" so we might leave $20 on a gas pump with a note explaining what we're doing. The money will be there to either help someone who can't afford pay for their gas or just to simply make their day. The proof that we will provide are pictures of the notes we made with the money. They will be placed somewhere people will be able to see it and it will have a rock on top of it so it doesn't blow away.
"STEM Students Create Winning Invention" Streamwood High School students recently developed a wind-powered generator, based on their very own invention. The sixteen students' generator won the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow contest, where they now go to the national level this spring to compete to win $200,000. The students had to put their minds together, research, and come up with a solution for a problem. They blueprinted the generator, and engineered it. STEM and student centered learning were both involved in this project. It could be considered a genius hour invention. While the students had help, they did the hard work. They did the research. They figured out how to build the project. Kids, not much older than me, have come up with an invention that could change the world. Genius hour projects have to start somewhere. That is why Kallie and I have started our project small. We will not win anything and our project will not be widely known. Even though we will not be helping thousands of people, or even hundreds, we hope to help as many people in our community as possible. I was gone the day this blog post was assigned.In John Cloud's article, "Is a Genius Born or Can it be Learned?", he wrote about how genius' are made. He had facts and quotes from other articles within his article that say how genius' are made by practice, and others say that they are made because of pure intelligence and what their genes are made of. He came to the conclusion that genius' are made by practicing something for multiple hours. It does not have to be all at once, but you must practice in order to become a genius. I can apply this information to my academic life by studying more and paying closer attention to what my teachers are saying. Instead of studying the night before a test or quiz, maybe I will study in smaller intervals throughout the entire week.
A man named Mr. Cowen came into my sixth hour English class and presented information about himself and his 3-D printer. Mr. Cowen's presentation on how and why he obtained and built his 3-D printer taught me a few things about effective ways to present information. He talked a lot about himself, his printer, and also fun and easy ways to design 3-D items yourself. His way of presenting really caught our attention. He sounded confident, he knew what he was talking about, and he showed a lot of examples. This way of presenting could help with my genius hour project because my project partner, Kallie, and I really need to know our information in order to sound confident and make people listen to us. Mr. Cowen also used the projector so he had many visuals. Visuals catch peoples' attention, so Kallie and I can easily obtain different pictures and videos in order to show people more about our genius hour project.
If you search Google for the definition of the word "genius" it will tell you that a genius is a person who is exceptionally intelligent or creative, either generally or in some particular respect. In this article about geniuses, (click on button below to go to this page), it is explained that being a genius doesn't mean you have to get perfect scores on standardized tests, have a high IQ, or know how to speak multiple languages. You don't even have to be smart. A genius can be far more creative than he or she is intelligent, or far more intelligent than creative.
Geniuses share many different strategies. One of which is that geniuses look at problems in many different ways. The article gives the example of the number thirteen. Some different ways of writing out thirteen are: 6.5; 13 = 1 and 3; THIR TEEN = 4; and many, many more. More strategies that geniuses share are, geniuses make their thoughts visible, geniuses produce, geniuses make novel combinations, geniuses force relationships, geniuses think in opposites, geniuses think metaphorically, and finally, geniuses prepare themselves for chance. Our genius hour project encourages us to use some of the genius strategies. Throughout our projects we will have to think a lot about animals and how to make them happy. Just like humans, animals have individual needs. Because animals are all different, we will need to look at these problems in many different ways. For instance, some animals are not particularly good at games like catch or fetch so we might just have to hold them and comfort them. This works in reverse also. Some animals are not conformable with human's holding them so they might want to play fetch. We can learn a lot from failure. Genius Hour is an hour that students use in class to pursue their own ideas. Teachers are having their students use about one hour every week to focus on creating and sharing a student-led passion project. Educators say that Genius Hour helps kids start learning how to think for themselves and that it helps promote student-driven learning. Genius Hour lets failure become an option. If you fail, you can learn from your mistakes and not let them happen again.
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