Engaged Learning Part I

The first part of Engaged Learning grapples with Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's ideas of "flow" - what it is, why it's important, how it happens. After you read this first section, reflect on the times you have experienced flow and how/why we should consider the role of flow in our teaching.

Is engagement really that important or should we only be concerned with our students doing what we ask them to do: read the canon, write those essays? After all, that's what our curriculum calls for, doesn't it?

Discuss.