{"id":44516,"date":"2014-01-27T11:37:14","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T16:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=44516"},"modified":"2014-01-27T11:37:14","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T16:37:14","slug":"what-to-do-when-your-kids-find-their-passion-juliani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2014\/01\/27\/what-to-do-when-your-kids-find-their-passion-juliani\/","title":{"rendered":"What to do when your kids find their \u201cpassion\u201d  [Juliani]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/teachmama.com\/kids-find-passion\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>what to do when your kids find their \u201cpassion\u201d<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from teachmama.com by author, teacher, and \u2018learning addict\u2019,\u00a0 A.J. Juliani<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">As a high school English teacher I was able to answer this question of \u201cWhat Next?\u201d when I ran a \u201c20% Project\u201d with my students three years ago. The project was simple. It is based on the \u201c20 percent time\u201d Google employees have to work on something other than their job description. It has been well documented, and Google has exponentially grown as a company while giving this 20 percent time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">After we came back from winter break I gave them this handout:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>The 20% Project<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><strong>1. For the rest of the year, 20% of your time in my class will be spent working on something you want to work on.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><strong>2. It has to be some type of learning, and you have to document it (journal etc).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><strong>3. You\u2019ll present your accomplishments to the class twice (and will not be graded on it).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><strong>4. That\u2019s it. Have fun. Find your passion. Explore it. Enjoy learning what you want.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Another example of how we can learn from &#8212; and apply things from &#8212; each others&#8217; worlds &#8212; K-12, higher ed, the corporate world.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Another example how &#8220;more choice\/more control&#8221; impacts intrinsic motivation!<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">This is the sort of thing that should help kids become more entrepreneurial as well&#8230;perhaps even starting their own freelancing gigs!<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>what to do when your kids find their \u201cpassion\u201d &#8212; from teachmama.com by author, teacher, and \u2018learning addict\u2019,\u00a0 A.J. 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