Affordances and Technology

I have decided that once teachers become professors and must produce original research as part of their job description, it begins to get a bit ridiculus. Affordances just means methods of use for diffferent tools of teaching. So, why not say this instead of using the term "affordances"? Because someone had the bright idea that it would make a great paper to use this term instead of a simplier, more direct methd of writing. The project on affordances was interesting, but I already have good grasp on the ways most of the tool sets are used.Finding 5 "affordances" or uses for spreedsheets was rather hard after I had stated calculation of numbers, graphing and tables, but I managed. Hand calculations was so broad that I simply focused on the use of calculators.