Reshaping the Learning Experience Through Apps: Affordances

Abstract

This paper reports on how the affordancesAffordancesof the app Math Shake reshaped the learning experience—an aspect of a research project examining the ways mobile technologies are used in primaryPrimary-school mathematics. Students used different digital toolsDigital toolswithin the app to solve word problems, while the affordancesAffordances, including simultaneous linking, focussed constraint, creative variation, dynamic and haptic, made the learning experience different from when using pencil-and-paper technology. However, while the affordancesAffordancesof the mobile technologies are important, the teacher's pedagogical approach was also influential in the learning.