Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin highlighted the idea in their 2004 IPO letter:
"We encourage our employees, in addition to their regular projects, to spend 20% of their time working on what they think will most benefit Google," they wrote. "This empowers them to be more creative and innovative. Many of our significant advances have happened in this manner."
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/google-20-percent-time-policy-2015-4#ixzz3a1R4KdubHow can this apply to education? Here's an article called "Inspire Drive, Creativity in the Classroom with 20-Time."
Some excerpts:
The latest in education is asking us to teach our students to create their own questions, do their own research, and form their own conclusions with their learning.The world is a collaborative, communicative place and it is the world of online tools that has made it this way. Our students' workplaces will be places with teams at tables, not individuals in cubicles.
One way to teach autonomy that is quickly catching fire throughout education is the concept of 20-Time. The concept is simple. Allow students 20% of class time, or one day a week, to work on and explore one topic of their choice.
This is a great place to find inspriation, templates and more.
http://www.20timeineducation.com/home
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