Sentences with word «affordances»

Within PD, teacher learning opportunities are shaped by affordances of design and implementation of the PD.

Twitter is one social media tool that appears to offer affordances for teaching and learning (EDUCAUSE, 2007) that merit investigation by teacher educators.

We focus on affordances and constraints of standardization along with the tools and supports necessary and explore the potential for use with teaching candidates.

In the Design of Everyday Things, Don Norman introduces the notion of affordances in design, applying a term that, until then, had never left the realm of psychology.

Understanding affordances and challenges of three types of video for teacher professional development.

Or maybe «a quick transition animation which played when you pressed the Play button that seemed to be a UX affordance but actually allowed us to start caching the video locally so we could tolerate connectivity interruptions in the post-play experience»?

In the essay, I highlight some advantages and affordances unique to digital books....

So ok, Facebook wasn't created for educational purposes, but you'd be surprised of how the social affordances of this versatile tool can generate great potentials for social learning.

Despite divergent perspectives, the chapter authors share a commitment to explore the immersion of ICT into the lives of young children and consider the educational value of these tools as well as the developmental appropriateness of technological affordances.

They found that the physics teachers there made use of the many affordances of the digital technology, providing their students with high - quality tools to explore scientific concepts.

The ways in which affordances and constraints are manipulated by the teacher, through task selection, choice of software, and instructional design determine what mathematics is possible and the ways in which students will approach it.

Here's the key: a Visual Affordance Test.

You're probably wondering «OK, I have supporting language, metaphorical patterns and negative affordances, but how do I know if it's working?»

After reviewing survey results, faculty read and discussed case studies of maker - centered learning, thinking through local affordances and constraints.

Twitter, in particular, is a popular social media service that appears to offer affordances as a learning tool.

I spend a quick paragraph on it in the review but I want to examine in a more rambling fashion this idea of environmental affordance.

«As educational technologies emerge and evolve, it is essential to use a critical eye toward the specific tool affordances when making decisions about instructional practice.»

«In the operating system of all those devices, we made certain affordances for games and learned a lot of lessons,» Gammill says.

10 - 20 tests will suggest where the faulty affordances lie.

For most teams, methods like card sorting, basic immersion and time spent evaluating affordances will suffice.

In an edgy new exhibit at Amsterdam's Looiersgracht 60 Gallery, somewhat fittingly titled «The End of Sitting,» Visser and her cohorts at RAAAF (Rietveld Architecture - Art Affordances) envision a more active, upright office environment.

Do think it through from a principled point of view, and do also appreciate the key affordances of the technology, the key factors of the technology and how it behaves in order to have a good critical analysis.

The team suggests, however, that theirs is the first examination of the network from the perspective of professional development taking into account social, technological and pedagogical affordances.

This is a perceptual task: the person needs to perceive throwing - relevant affordance properties of objects and be able to discriminate between objects that vary in those properties.

«This study applies research about how modern humans perceive the throwing affordances of objects, to provide a mathematical analysis of the stones found at the Cave of Hearths and evaluate the of these objects as projectiles for throwing.»

Programs such as the Google Suite for Education, Edmodo, and Showbie may have different features, but they offer communication and collaboration affordances that not only support a paperless classroom, but also empower students to be responsible and independent learners.

Like all technologies, mobile learning comes with its own affordances, possibilities, and limitations.

A film or video has none of these simple, but invaluable navigational affordances.

The NCSS Network Ning incorporates many of the features and affordances found in other contemporary online teacher networks.

Various affordances of oTPD include high - quality learning opportunities, access to experts at low costs to districts, ample time to reflect prior to interaction, flexibility for teachers who have busy work lives, and personalized learning spaces (Dede et al., 2009; Sprague, 2006).

This 21st - century affordance has generated a shift in the way preservice teachers are prepared to use, understand.

Informed by the Good Play research findings, this curriculum emphasizes the ways in which youth can leverage the positive affordances of digital media while protecting themselves and making socially responsible, ethical decisions.

The degree to which Colonial Williamsburg's EFTs are structured to engage students in problem - based learning is the focus for the following findings and relates to the overall affordances and constraints of the Colonial Williamsburg EFT model.

Specifically, these themes focus on the performative, collaborative, and multimodal affordances of digital media, and they tap into the potential for using digital media as «identity texts» in student learning.

Codes generated from teacher feedback were aligned with TPACK affordances of PD segments.

At the risk of over-simplifying, «T» is primarily about some particular mediational technology; «P» is about its educative interactional affordances; «C» is about what one learns; and the emergent TPACK is about effectively bringing these all together for learning.

Our game - based assessment methodology delineates learning goals and objectives, cognitive demands, simulation affordances, and instructional and assessment strategies.

Exploring Mobile Affordances in the Digital Classroom.

No matter where you take the print book, no matter what room you read it in, it will remain in the same form and have the same affordances as it did on the day it was first stacked in the bookstore.

This first diagram is based on digital books» divergence from print books and focuses on the combination of modes and the new (or enhanced) affordances enabled by digital media.

It won't be worth it if people keep having to go back to print because ebooks don't have the capabilities or affordances necessary.