Ignite Talk

1. Introducing HOMAGO Essentials as my ignite talk topic 2. What I have learned/what we have done in this class this semester: HOMAGO Essentials, Stepping outside of my writing comfort zone, Keeping a daybook, using a mentor text, making an info graphic, master and little narratives, popular culture in literacy. 3. The HOMAGO Essentials was created by Mimi Ito. The focus is how exactly the time of youth is being spent and ways to engage youth by adapting new media platforms, communities, and skills for greater educational purposes. 4. What HOMAGO Essentials stands for: Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out 5. The importance of Hanging Out: It supports spontaneity, it is low-risk and non-judgmental, it has flexible boundaries, and it encourages further exploration. 6. What Messing Around is: self-directed and interest-driven activity, actively support or foster collaborative activity, provides opportunities for conversation, and allows experimentation, with no "right answer". 7. What Geeking Out should do: allow youth to level up in their interests, hands-on workshop, provide opportunities for focused collaboration, and challenge youth. 8. HOMAGO Essentials is...a really interesting topic because it is not a typical learning style. I feel like if more schools used the HOMAGO essentials students would perform much better because they are interested in what they are learning. Honestly, not many high schoolers care about anything they learn. 9.How to: 1st you find something that is very interesting to you, 2nd you hang out with that interest you have found, 3rd you mess around with your interest and you partake in interest driven activity, 4th you start to geek out- level up in your area of interest, collaborate with other people that share the same interest. 10. HOMAGO essentials is waiting for Santa on Christmas Eve. There is great anticipation like waiting for Santa when you have discovered something that you love and enjoy so much. You will want to spend all of your time doing what interests you. 11.HOMAGO Essential should be used because: students are more likely to learn if it is about a topic that interests them and they will want to dive into the topic and gather all the information on the topic as possible. 12. They begin to Geek Out: People get so into their interest and it consumes all of their time and thoughts. THey re all about it and they talk to other people about the topics. They want to know more and more, as much information as possible. 13. This is my friend that is obsessed with Cam Newton and he definitely Geeks Out. He has to put on his jersey for every game, he knows all of his stats, it's his back ground on his phone, he is obsessed. 14. This is my friend Morgan and when she was younger she was obsessed with Winnie the Pooh Bear. She said that she was dying for a Pooh Bear book bag and once she got one she didn't want to take it off and she wanted to wear it everywhere. 15. In English 1102 I used the HOMAGO Essentials in many ways. One being that I messed around every time I had to respond to an academic blog post. I searched the internet until I found out that interested me and I wanted to read further. After I read the blog that interested me, I provided feedback. 16 & 17. You can use HOMAGO essentials in fashion! You first Hang Out and you need to be spontaneous and pick new and different styles. Then you need to Mess Around and tinker with your ideas, you need to mess around and find that style that you are interested in. Finally you need to Geek Out. You will become obsessed with the style and you will want to wear it all that time. 18. I Geeked Out when I got my fur vest. I looked and looked for the perfect one and once I got it I didn't want to take it off. I revolved all of my outfits around my vest. 19. Have you ever wondered why your teachers in high school never taught you about the HOMAGO Essentials and interest-driven learning? 20. Teachers in high school are only concerned about meeting state standards and not focusing on the student's needs.