Technology Affordances Matrix: entry-point table of technology work forms and their learning opportunities¶

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Description¶

The Technology Affordances Matrix is the Toolkit's entry-point table. It lists the most common forms of student work with technology — Web Design, Data Collection and Representation, Information Gathering, Live Presentations, and Illustrated Reports — and introduces the learning opportunities each area affords. For each form and skill category it describes what Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced work looks like, for example that advanced data representation means knowing "how to vary the ways one represents data to sway or convince a particular audience."

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Serves as the entry point to the rest of the Toolkit; educators begin here to match a technology work form to their larger learning goals

Constraints¶

• The Matrix introduces learning opportunities broadly; detailed skill descriptions are deferred to the Conceptual Frameworks and Checklists

Target Learners¶

• K-12 students

Target Learning Goals¶

• Choosing and evaluating forms of technology work aligned with learning goals

Claims¶

Related Elements¶

• The Evaluation Toolkit: a teacher-facing instrument for assessing technology-rich learning activities
• Bernauer and Tomei's integrated matrix of five faculty integrator quadrants

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• The Evaluation Toolkit: A Work-in-Progress. (2002). https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED463744