Flow, Curiosity, and Engaging Education

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Wesley Fryer[Edit][Delete]: Flow, Curiosity, and Engaging Education, Moving at the Speed of Creativity [Edit][Delete] November 24, 2006
Good choice of reading material: "Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience" by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Good discussion, too. Some thoughts. First, 'flow' is what Papert and others today call "hard fun". Also, a lot depends on the width of the 'flow' channel. Third, the edges of the flow channel are fuzzy and variable depending on time of day, hunger, sleepiness, and more. More...