Sentences with phrase «affordances for»

His research focuses on tools for creativity, affordances for creation, expression through game making, and platforms for building and sharing games.

The question here, though, is: do these affordances for beginners get in the way of the game for more seasoned gamers?

An EPUB Publication might have more than one set of sufficient access modes for its consumption depending on the types of content it includes (i.e., unlike accessMode, this property takes into account any affordances for content that is not broadly accessible, such as the inclusion of transcripts for audio content).

Social studies teacher educators and researchers have noted film's affordances for learning content, developing empathy, practicing analysis, and engaging in civic preparation (Marcus, 2007).

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

This research includes empirical studies to compare the usefulness of AR - based learning with traditional approaches, and follow - up studies to identify their affordances for collaborative learning.

Not exact matches

«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.»

Using research on the perception of affordances (the possibility of an action on an object or environment) for maximum distance and therefore maximum speed and damage throwing, the researchers simulated the projectile motions the spheroids would undergo if thrown by an expert.

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.

Turning transfer inside out: The affordances of virtual worlds and mobile devices in real world contexts for teaching about causality across time and distance in ecosystems.

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.

The game is one of the first to be developed from the ground up specifically for the affordances of the iPad rather than as a digital version of physical games, or a scaled - down version of console games, making it uniquely compelling.

«That would be a design that took advantage of some affordances and patterns of behavior Christine is noticing without trying to commandeer these social networks as a location for structured class work.»

However, to capitalise on the affordances offered by technology, schools soon find that they need to create a whole - school ecosystem for learning.

The intent of the VideoANT activity in TIN is to provide teachers with a social and technological affordance (Kirschner et al., 2004) for reflecting on past teaching practice by sharing and commenting on a video of their instruction.

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).

In a review of the literature related to the use of video in teacher education, Sherin (2003) concluded that two affordances emerge when using video: (a) video allows for a permanent record of classroom occurrences that can be viewed repeatedly to ensure capture of classroom complexity and student - teacher interactions, and (b) video provides the opportunity for teachers to develop an «analytic mind set» (p. 13).

The authors further discuss the affordances of the specific technologies used in creating the learning opportunities for these preservice teachers and implications for teacher education.

Learn about the challenges of developing such settings and the powerful affordances they offer for individuals learning to teach or trying to improve their practice.

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.

The purpose of the focus group was to provide additional evaluation information about the affordances of the curriculum materials to provide enhanced geospatial pedagogical practices for student learning.

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

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.

Still, there are affordances offered by a face - to - face delivery method that are unavailable or awkward for use in online classes.

The context includes the prominent roles of adult guidance and the affordance of social opportunities for young children as they engage with interactive technologies.

Join this session to search for overlaps between the affordances of technology and the tenets of PBL and to tackle some of the challenges which arise in the intersections.

It may be useful for teachers and teacher educators to wrestle with the affordances and limitations of wikis and social media — and important differences between them.

Teacher education faculty members serve as the teachers for these activities and are then able to discuss the affordances technology can provide within the activities, the strengths and weaknesses of the activities from a pedagogical standpoint, and potential issues with implementing these activities in more authentic settings.

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

Although Herbst et al. (2013) found that animations have the same impact on preservice teachers» ability to reason about content and pedagogy as do video clips, more research is needed on how animations can be used in mathematics methods courses as an alternative to videos of actual classrooms, how different animation software provide different affordances or constraints for PSTs» reasoning, and how these animations impact PSTs» abilities to reason about students» approaches.

Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to (a) present one approach for incorporating technology into a mathematics methods course that utilizes several types of technology into one lesson, (b) highlight affordances and limitations of different technological choices, and (c) discuss implications for teacher education.

Affordances and constraints in the context of teacher collaboration for the purpose of data use.

Mobile has a variety of affordances — it is always with the user (even in the loo for most), it's almost always connected, it is a computer with search, apps and media capability.

However, there is a mismatch between physical and virtual affordances, since children often kept pushing the widget too close to the physical screen edges, which makes it difficult for the iPad to detect the widget.

This implementation puts voice first, but provides the flexibility for customers to interact with Alexa by pressing an affordance on the product.

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