Affordances are the ways in which the technology allows learning to take place. For example, there are the mechanical aspects of doing an activity, making a Youtube video requires collecting pictures, music, assembling the video and posting it to youtube. The affordance is the learning that actually takes place from doing the mechanical steps. For example, while I was making the youtube I learned about the life and times of Dolores Huerta. This afforded me the ability to compare her life with other social reformers that I have also learned about. It afforded me the ability to compare and contrast.
I think that the point of the article, to be sure that your use of Web 2.0 applications are not just for the sake of using them, but offer the student the affordances necessary to carry them to the next step, or level along the learning curve.
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