Digital Pedagogy

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Affordances

• Donald Norman, The Design of Everyday Things

• An affordance is a quality of an object, or an environment, that allows an individual to perform an action. (Wikipedia)

• Especially those readily perceived by an actor (one who will use the object)

• Human Computer Interaction

Digital, not analog?

Differences, enhancements• Repeatability• Scrubbing• Segmentation• Transferability • Non-linear

Further affordances

Further Affordances

• Reusable (archival teaching)• Multimodal, esp. visual• Search• Temporality

– Asyncrhonous and Synchronous– Availability (User’s Schedules and

Needs)

Web 2.0 Affordances

• Availability• Ease of Use

(WYSIWYG)• Findability• Interactivity• Microcontent• Free/cheap

• Interoperability• User Generated• Network Effects• Social• Collaborative• Tagging

Learning Management Systems

• What are their affordances?

Implications

• Enhancing and Expanding the Classroom (space and time)

• In service to pedagogy• Active learning• Comfort• Keeping up

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