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Help Your Students Flow
Coding the Flow State
Sometimes, it can be a challenge to engage your students in their coding classes. Especially through challenging sections filled with massive amounts of code, keeping students’ attention can feel like a formidable puzzle.
How can you keep your students engaged through long and arduous coding lessons? Let your students flow. By setting up a learning environment that aids their brain in focusing, your students will be able to achieve a flow state that keeps them actively participating in programming and computer science for years to come.
What is Flow State?
A flow state is a mental phenomenon that has you entirely focused on what you’re doing. In other words, you’re “in the zone.” When you’re in this state, you blend with the task you’re working on. Your sense of self vanishes, and nothing exists outside of your activity and your work at it.
This state can cause your absolute best work, as the maximum amount of your attention is on a task. The condition makes time fly past you; people in flow might find that they didn’t realize how quickly an hour or day went by. People in flow will also feel quite happy, capable, motivated, and focused.
