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Comments:
'Flow' is a very personal and individual 'moment' and is rarely shared amongst students as the experience and stimulus is different for every student.

Csikszentmihalyi describes a state of flow as one when we are at our most receptive and creative. Group activities are particularly 'high' on flow as opposed to chalk and talk / lecture type activities which are not.

8 factors of activities that promote flow:
 * 1) requires concentration.
 * 2) offers a reasonable chance for success/completion
 * 3) includes a clear articulation of goals
 * 4) provides immediate or ongoing feedback
 * 5) involves "deep but effortless involvement;" removes worries and frustrations of everyday life
 * 6) allows for a sense of control
 * 7) concerns for self disappear; i.e., inhibitions, stage fright, and embarrassment
 * 8) sense of time is altered.

Questions
how can 'flow' be maintained and how can the teacher handle it when some people in a group are experiencing 'flow' and others are not?

Viewing
Video presentation given by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi : http://www.616.ips.k12.in.us/Theories/Flow/default.aspx

Reading
[|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow] Flow in games :http://jenovachen.com/flowingames/flowtheory.htm http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Flow_theory http://www.brainchannels.com/thinker/mihaly.html Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1990). Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. New York: Harper and Row.