Week 12: Assignment 1

Week 12: Analysis of Glogster Educational Affordances

Concept of Affordances and the Three Main Research Questions:

http://zulayka.edu.glogster.com/

1.    How might the affordances of technologies be articulated?

2.    Can these be developed in a taxonomy for ICT?

3.    How might a critical knowledge and understanding of such affordances be used to support learning and teaching?

Themes	Benefits
Accessibility	·         Students and teachers may obtain the site through classroom and/or computers within libraries.      ·         Students must have a tutorial as they are shifting their previous learning pattern to a new innovative approach. Con: School must pay an annual membership, this may be a challenge for schools with limited budgets.
Speed of Change	·     Teachers have the ability to make updates to documents and change literature pieces. ·   With rapid changes, some students may not have a significant amount of time to reflect on lesson plans. Con: with material become disposable and changing so often, it may present a conflict to students learning new approaches.
Diversity	·         Teachers have the ability to utilize the program for various subjects across the board. ·         The site provides teachers with templates and ideas to reference for future lesson plans. ·         ELA compositions such as book reports, biographies, and learning key reading elements such as similes, metaphors and homophones.
Communications and Collaborations	·         Students have the ability to work on group projects and presentations. ·         Students and teachers have the ability to communicate with each other via private messages and classroom boards. Con: There wasn’t a visible area in which students messages are filtered.
Reflection	·         Students have the ability to reflect on their experiences through the discussion board area. ·         Students can utilize the templates developed as a reference tool for oral presentations.
Multi-modal and non-linear	·         Students are able to complete assignments and templates in a non-linear approach. An ideal approach for students who struggle with different components and need additional time.
Surveillance	·         Students are limited to interactions with their fellow classmates, an important feature with luring of children on the internet during this era.