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Technology Applications: General Concepts 1

Subjects : it-skills, literacy
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1. Software used by architects and others to aid in the design of structures such as houses and cars






2. A type of outsourcing in which many people are asked to give their input online to solve a problem that has proven resistant to efforts of single individuals or organizations






3. Applications software that is designed specifically to deliver or assist with student instruction on a topic; software that can be used to enhance teaching and learning in many ways. Drill and practice - educational games - tutorials - simulation - a






4. Antidote utilities to detect - eliminate and protect from viruses - worms and Trojans. It typically contains an engine - a resident virus shield - virus databases or DAT files - a task scheduler - an e-mail scanner - and an update manager. It guards






5. A machine that processes information according to a set of instructions.






6. Abbreviation for application - software that normally has an extension of .app and refers to any Internet application specifically designed to run on mobile devices such as smartphones






7. Guidelines limiting the rights of copyright holders and allowing portions of copyrighted materials to be used for educational purposes; guidelines for portion - time - amount - and distribution of copyrighted materials for educational purposes.






8. Proposed by learning theorist Albert Bandura as learning that occurs through actions - rather than by observation






9. Either software or devices with software that help carry out complex numeric calculations involved in higher-level math problems (e.g. - Maple)






10. A camera that stores pictures in computer compatible digital format rather than on film.






11. A single networked delivery system that combines sophisticated computer-assisted instruction (CAI) with computer-managed instruction (CMI). Intellectual skills A type of learning that refers to a variety of thinking skills - including concept learnin






12. Computer software that continuously analyzes a student's test responses and presents more or less difficult questions based on the student's performance






13. A set of related principles explaining changes in human performance or performance potential in terms of the causes of those changes.






14. The second phase of the Plan - Implement - Evaluate model. Focus is on the use of instructional materials and activities designed to help students achieve the outcomes specified in the instructional plan.






15. A mathematical expression that directs an electronic spreadsheet to perform various kinds of calculations on the numbers entered in it; in a spreadsheet - a command inserted in a cell and used to do calculations on data






16. Classroom display that allow teachers or students to interact with the computer through a touch sensitive board on which the computer screen is projected.






17. Combines detailed information about a subject area and common student mistakes with a model of student performance to diagnose a given student's level of understanding. Also provides instruction designed to meet that student's individual needs. Somet






18. The third phase in the Plan - Implement - Evaluate model. Focus is on assessment techniques used to determine the level of learning students have achieved and/or the effectiveness of the instructional materials.






19. A type of mnemonic in which an unfamiliar new word is linked to a similar-sounding familiar word - which is used to create a visual image that incorporates the meaning of the new word.






20. Compression is the process to reduce file size through 'zipping' or 'archiving'. The compressed or zipped file can be from a large file or can contain several files that have been squeezed into a single file. After compression - the extraction proces






21. A type of problem solving that requires students to actively participate in real or hypothetical problem situations that reflect the types of experiences actually encountered in the discipline under study






22. A graphical representation of interrelated concepts that students can use as a learning aid or that teachers can use as an aid in content organization; tools designed to help people think through and explore ideas or topics by developing these visual






23. The term describes the data-carrying capacity of a transmission line. In other words - how much data flows on a given transmission path. It can apply to network connections - system buses - or any 'pipe' through which data pours. High-bandwidth conne






24. New term for information technology or educational technology; refers to all technologies used in education and training - as well as strategies for using them; originally in more common use outside the U.S. - but becoming more popular worldwide due






25. A type of instructional activity that provides students with an opportunity to practice using what they are learning.






26. The collection of all related records in a database.






27. A type of instructional activity that leads students to want to learn and to put in the effort required for learning.






28. Programs that allow users to create and manipulate geometric constructions and provide environments in which to make discoveries and conjectures related to geometry concepts and objects






29. Growing problem of online harassment in social networks






30. The interest - or value - that instructional materials or activities have for the learner.






31. A highlighted position indicator used on the computer screen.






32. Can be either software that supports the on-screen creation of music scores with several parts or tracks - or a hardware component of a music synthesizer workstation






33. A unique vocal distortion technique made possible with vocal-editing software






34. American Standard Code for Information Interchange; a standard way of representing text - which allows different computer brands to 'talk' to one another. It is sometimes referred to as plain text or unformatted text.






35. A collection of a person's work products over time - arranged so that he or she and others can see how skills have developed and progressed - and presented in an electronic form such as a website or multimedia product; websites created by students to






36. Pages or items listed as results of an Internet or database search






37. Software tools that simplify the activity of making highly graphic materials such as awards certificates and greeting cards by offering sets of clip art and pre-designed templates to which people add their own content






38. In printing - halftone refers to the technique of simulating shades of gray or color by varying the size of dots in a grid - or the number of pixels in a given area.






39. A type of hypermedia authoring software from Adobe that has become commonly used to create interactive web-based animations






40. A term coined by Lloyd Morrisett - former president of the Markle Foundation - used to describe the gap between those individuals who have access to technology such as computer software - the Internet - and so on and those who do not.






41. A measure of how much learners achieve per unit of time or dollar spent; for example - (Posttest - Pretest)/Time - or (Posttest - Pretest)/Cost.






42. A type of information that describes the potential usefulness of facts - concepts - and principles.






43. On computer networks - a location for person-to-person real-time (synchronous) interaction by typing messages.






44. A blueprint for instructional lessons based on analyses of the learners - the context - and the task to be learned. Planning involves the process of deciding what methods of instruction are best for bringing about desired changes in student knowledge






45. An input accessory lets the computer user input data into the computer - whereas an output device allows the computer to communicate its results to the world outside. Input/output devices are also called I/O devices. The computer keyboard - display a






46. In education - academic dishonesty in which someone uses another's work obtained from the Internet as his/her own - also known as online cheating






47. According to learning theorist Robert Gagné - a sequenced set of building block skills a student must learn in order to learn a higher-order skill






48. In Adobe Flash - an advanced authoring environment for creating content for the web - a mobile - or virtually any digitalplatform






49. (short for Command Line Interface) the interface is where the user types a text command and the computer responds according to that command.






50. A way to store addresses of frequently used websites on your computer; in a browser - a set of Internet locations or URLs organized so that a user can return to them quickly







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