A fellow teacher went to an EdTech conference and came back with this wonderful idea of 20 Time. As a teacher first looking at this idea it is a little intimidating and terrifying. Thoughts rapidly fly through the mind of, "I'm going to let them choose ANYTHING . . . They don't do the projects and homework I give them now . . . Can I give up twenty percent of my class? . . . Is this authentic learning?" After many such conversations with myself, I decided this was something I wanted to include in my classroom or at least experiment with.
