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Affordance of Enhanced Opportunity for Collaboration Emily Cleveland

What is it? This is one of the five affordances of technology. An affordance is a quality of an object, or an environment, that allows an individual to perform an action. In other words, this affordance is saying that technology should assist in providing opportunities to collaborate. In an educational setting, the three 5 th grade teachers at an elementary school would need to collaborate in picking curriculum and projects, etc. This would be a great opportunity to use technology to benefit the situation. By using a Google Doc, they can form a document or spreadsheet on which they can collaborate together, yet it can be accessed when each individual has time and from any computer with Internet connection.

This video gives a clear description of how useful Google Docs can be for this affordance of technology: media type="youtube" key="POIR37Hmydg" height="315" width="560"

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