Sentences with phrase «on affordances»

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

The findings of this study highlight the need to ensure that curricula embed and capitalize on the affordances offered by technology at all levels and in a systematic manner.

In addition to reading about and discussing new literacies, teachers composed reading responses using different tools, such as pen and paper, blogs, the online journal Penzu, and wikis — and reflected on the affordances of each.

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

Open Educational Resources (OER) are the ideal tool to leverage on the affordances of technology and the insights of online learning to reduce the inequalities in the Sub-Saharan African countries» education systems.

Not exact matches

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.

Both are unhelpful and potentially dangerous misconceptions because we need creative scientists and engineers to work on groundbreaking projects from the Large Hadron Collider to HS2 as well as artists and designers who understand the affordances of materials and the uses of technology.

I find it intriguing that we have not fully realised the affordance that technology offers in relation to real - time (just in - time) formative assessment practices that research tells us makes a significant impact on student learning (Wiliam, Black, Hattie) I have a pre-school age child whose school uses a «reporting / communication» tool where daily updates are captured by the educators including work samples, outcomes linked, photos of my child engaged in learning tasks etc..

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.

Previously, PD around technology has focused on introducing the affordances of the technology with the assumption that teachers could connect these to their teaching practice (Kopcha, 2012; Matzen & Edmunds, 2007).

Rather, as we consider the affordances and constraints of each digital tool, it is important to focus on how the tool develops students» reading and writing learning and engagement.

With the benefit of significant research on this topic (much of it by the authors of these guidelines) and sobered, like them, by the «hype cycles and the techno - romance of emerging technologies» (Hicks et al., 2014, para. 5), social studies scholars today have a better informed and more theoretically sophisticated perspective concerning the affordances and challenges of digital technologies in social studies teacher preparation than once was the case.

First, general trends in comments from cohort members indicate that the practice of blogging and its affordances have values that differ based on who is speaking.

The affordance of blogging on establishing communities of practice in a preservice elementary teacher education program.

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.

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.

Certain UX affordances are supported within the browser context (e.g. text highlighting) but application - level UX affordances would generally be done in the reading system application via platform - specific code (e.g. Java on Android, Objective - C on iOS).

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.

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).

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.

Realism isn't all bad, though, as Andy explains, «If you truly make up EVERYTHING in a game, you have to re-train your audience on every single affordance.

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

Despite initially deciding on a danmaku game due to «sheer pragmatism,» Primo quickly realized that despite a «limited set of player affordances» an authentic game in the genre would need to be rigorously technical.

The physical affordances to interact with Alexa will depend up on whether your products is voice - initiated or touch - initiated.

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

A user activity is defined as an action that confirms a user is in the presence of the product, such as interacting with on - product buttons, speaking with Alexa, or using a GUI affordance.

Immediate contextual influences on maternal behavior: environmental affordances and demands