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Passion & Curiosity Project

For this assignment, MAET students are tasked with creating something- anything!- that incorporates students' passion, curiosity, and personal reflections of the ideas expressed in A More Beautiful Question by Warren Berger.

This digital project aims to have students:
  1. Represent how they bring passion and curiosity to their work as an educator
  2. Explore how questioning is impacted by the passion and curiosity in their professional context
  3. Illustrates a reflecting on learning in MAET: Mindsets for Innovation. 

My Passion & Curiosity Project

When I began this project, the first question that stood out to me was 'How do I demonstrate my passion and curiosity? How do I  inspire passion and curiosity in my learners?'. I found this question deeply intriguing because I realized that a lot of the time I get so caught up in my day to day responsibilities that I constrain myself to a routine and fail to utilize creativity.

Thinking about myself in the context of education, I am very curious about student led classrooms. I love the idea of students getting autonomy to choose learning tasks or learn by discovery, similar to some Montessori schools. While I wish my own classroom could adopt some of these practices, I often find it difficult to overcome the constraints and barriers of being a public school teacher.

With this in mind, I decided to create my passion and curiosity project around this. I imagined what barriers I feel trapped behind, and what it could look like it I were to 'break the frame' and be free! I envisioned a space where learners are more engaged and intrinsically motivated, and where I feel free to be creative and curious myself!

Feel free to click on the link to view my Passion and Curiosity video made on Canva!
Passion & Creativity by Danielle Moran
View my Passion & Curiosity video here or click the link below to view in another tab!
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