The Myths of Technology Series – “Technology equals engagement”

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Compliance – Do this because I told you.

Engagement – Do this because you are excited.

Empowerment – Do this because you have the power to do something meaningful for yourself.

So if we want to get to this idea of “empowering” our students, we are not going to have to be the “sage on the stage” or the “guide at the side”, but “architects of meaningful learning opportunities”.  Understanding our students, their interests, abilities, and strengths, will help us better design learning that gets them to, as Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi describes, a state of “flow“.

Flow is the mental state of operation in which a person performing an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity