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The Question We Never Ask

11/9/2015

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My year 10's are a quirky bunch - spirited, curious and sensitive. I had initially planned to finish the year with a unit on comedy, but after an inspirational discussion with my 6 year old I decided to through the unit out and try something different. I have called this new unit of work The Genius Project and I will blog about it in detail once I have completed the unit with my quirky, spirited, curious and sensitive year 10's, but in essence it stems from the concept of Genius Hour . 

As a lead into this unit (and out of my own spirited, curious nature), I posed a question. I told my students that there were no wrong answers only right ones and that they should put no limitations on what they wrote. I was so intrigued by there answers that I asked them if I could publish them here. They said, 'Spread the word Miss. This is where education should be at!' (or something along those lines). So here is their answers to the question we all should be asking. I haven't changed or adapted the list in anyway. This is verbatim. What will I do with their answers now that I have them? I will listen. 

The Question We Should Be Asking
What do YOU wish you could learn in school?

The Answers
I want to learn:
  • To take amazing photos
  • Self Defence
  • How to do ‘grown-up’ things
  • I want to learn to make nuggets crispy without burning them
  • To fix the wifi
  • Body health
  • How to make candles
  • How our mind works
  • How to live our lives to the fullest
  • About the lifestyles of different cultures
  • To draw
  • How to make movies
  • Magic
  • How to buy and sell a house
  • How to do taxes
  • How to start a life
  • About mythology
  • How to be smart
  • To be a wizard
  • What it is like to do each subject in university
  • The reality of what it is like after school
  • Psychology
  • How to be successful
  • How to be disease free and healthy
  • How to scuba-dive
  • Mind reading
  • How to look good
  • About how other people live
  • How can we travel to the places no one else knows
  • How can we become amazing humans
  • How to drive
  • How to make clothes
  • About time travel
  • What it is like to walk in another persons shoes
  • How to make fireworks
  • Robotics
  • More experiments
  • History (Middle Ages, Kings and Queens)
  • How to be philosopher
  • Conventions of society – How we are supposed to act and why
  • How to be a mermaid (I told you they were spirited)

Additional notes they added to their list:
  • Make a school based on creativity
  • I want my classes to be outside
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