Category:Affordances and constraints of learning technologies

The contents on affordances and constraints of learning technologies will be written by students enrolled during the Summer, 2013 section of course Education 6620, Issues and trends in educational computing at Memorial University, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

Affordances (Gibson, 1979) are properties of technology that facilitate activity (Norman, 1993, p. 244) and create "possibilities for agentic action" (Hutchby, 2001, p. 444). Constraints limit the affordances and the properties of action associated with them.

The students' contributions are evidenced-based. Specifically, this means that all entries in this category are based on findings from primary sources in peer-reviewed, educational-technology journals.

REFERENCES

Gibson, J. J. (1979). The ecological approach to visual perception. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin.

Hutchby, I. (2001). Technologies, texts and affordances. Sociology., 35(2), 441-456. doi: 10.1017/S0038038501000219

Norman, D. A. (1993). Things that make us smart: Defending human attributes in the age of the machine. New York, NY: Addison-Wesley.