CATS: A Tool for Identifying the Cognitive Affordances of Learning Technologies
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This paper describes the development of CATS or Cognitive Affordances of Technologies Scale, a tool that can aid faculty, instructional designers, and e-learning specialists in identifying and leveraging the cognitive affordances of a learning technology. CATS includes seven multi-disciplinary research supported categories of cognitive affordances that can be harnessed to enrich student learning experiences in technology supported learning environments: experiential learning, discourse or dialogic learning, supportive learning, learn by doing, critical thinking, conceptual change, and self-regulated learning. Each category contains a list of cognitive criteria and each criterion is operationally defined and cited. Results of using CATS to analyze a technology supported learning environment are described. Implications for using CATS as a design and evaluation tool are discussed.
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