Affordance+of+Greater+Access+to+Information

Affordance of Greater Access to Information 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 easier and more numerous opportunities to access information. In an educational setting, this could be useful in a high school statistics class. The students could easily find statistics online that were taken in the most recent census, compared to waiting for a publication of the census to be printed and put in a library.

This link will take you to the US census, illustrating how much data is accessible on the internet: http://www.census.gov/

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