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by Deanna Cole - Saturday, 2 November 2019, 12:33 PM

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Assistive technology are tools that allow individuals with special challenges to be able to learn, develop and participate despite the challenge they by face. Challenges can be based on physical or mental impairments of conditions. Assistive technologies are tools designed to allow people to participate in areas they would no be able to given the conditions they face.

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by Deanna Cole - Sunday, 1 September 2019, 2:19 PM

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In researching affordances i was frankly overwhelmed by how complex the various sources i found explained "affordances". For example Amal AL- Ibrahim advised that "Educational affordances can be defined as the relationships between the properties of an educational intervention and the characteristics of the learner that enable certain kinds of learning to take p...

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by Deanna Cole - Sunday, 15 September 2019, 8:32 PM

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The key new theories in learning are the constructionist and behavioral theories. The constructionist theory advocates the point that children learn from being engaged in information that is shared with them and their interpretations and processing of the information. In this theory children are actively engaged. They experience, think, and come up with the understanding that is subje...