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Affordance of Managing Complexity Emily Cleveland

What is it? This is one of the five affordances of technology. An affordanc e is a quality of an object, or an environment, that allows an individual to perform an action. In other words, this affordance is saying there should be a cognitive partnership between the person and technology that reduces the cost of errors. In a technologically centered classroom, smart phones may be used. These would be great tools to illustrate this affordance as smart phones could provide students with the simple aid of a calculator, calendar, recording device, or even to the more technologically advanced access to the Internet.

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