ECHS 20% Project Overview
What will this project teach you?
Inspire Drive, Creativity and Innovation in the Classroom with the 20% Project
(20 % information courtesy of Kevin Brookhouser. Teacher, Trainer, Technologyer.)
Daniel Pink asks us to find what drives us. Sir Ken Robinson asks us to inspire creativity in students. The latest in education is asking us to find essential questions for students.
How? One way is to institute a 20% project in class.
The Why:
3M started it in the 1950’s with their 15% project. The result? Post-its and masking tape! Google is credited for making the 20% project what it is today. They asked their employees to spend 20% of their time at work to work on a pet project…a project that their job description didn’t cover. As a result of the 20% project at Google, we now have Gmail, AdSense, and Google News. Innovative ideas and projects are allowed to flourish and/or fail without the bureaucracy of committees and budgets.
Several educators today are extending the ideas of the 20% into their own classrooms with the hope that the project fosters creativity, innovation, and intrinsic motivation. And why not? With the CCS around the corner, cross-curricular skills will be more important than ever.
How?
ECHS 20% Project allows students to choose any goal, accomplishment, project of their choice, and then they will be guided through the process, we can give them the foundation of successful autonomous learning. Using 1: web strategies at ECHS, students will practice career and college readiness skills:
- Goal Setting
- Implementing Goals
- Reflecting and Redirecting Goals
- Showcasing Goals
Inspire Drive, Creativity and Innovation in the Classroom with the 20% Project
(20 % information courtesy of Kevin Brookhouser. Teacher, Trainer, Technologyer.)
Daniel Pink asks us to find what drives us. Sir Ken Robinson asks us to inspire creativity in students. The latest in education is asking us to find essential questions for students.
How? One way is to institute a 20% project in class.
The Why:
3M started it in the 1950’s with their 15% project. The result? Post-its and masking tape! Google is credited for making the 20% project what it is today. They asked their employees to spend 20% of their time at work to work on a pet project…a project that their job description didn’t cover. As a result of the 20% project at Google, we now have Gmail, AdSense, and Google News. Innovative ideas and projects are allowed to flourish and/or fail without the bureaucracy of committees and budgets.
Several educators today are extending the ideas of the 20% into their own classrooms with the hope that the project fosters creativity, innovation, and intrinsic motivation. And why not? With the CCS around the corner, cross-curricular skills will be more important than ever.
How?
ECHS 20% Project allows students to choose any goal, accomplishment, project of their choice, and then they will be guided through the process, we can give them the foundation of successful autonomous learning. Using 1: web strategies at ECHS, students will practice career and college readiness skills:
- Research
- Organize
- Create
- Cite
- Publish
- Showcase