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•  As educators, we have to be able to differentiate between “novelty” and “engagement”
•  There is a strong difference between “engaging” a student and “empowering” them
• “empowerment” seems to be focusing on having students provide for themselves.

• 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.
• 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

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