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Technology Applications: General Concepts 1
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1. Learning is a persisting change in human performance or performance potential [brought] about as a result of the learner's interaction with the environment. To change (or have the capacity to change) one's level of ability or knowledge.
CMYK graphics
Compensation
microcomputer
Learning
2. 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
Computer Adaptive Testing (CAT)
Home Page
Concept Map
Flash
3. Groups of people who 'meet -' usually via email - webpages - or other electronic means - to support each other's learning; in distance education - strategic - ongoing efforts by the instructor to encourage student-to-student interaction - as well as
Behavior
Circular reference
learning communities
Integrated learning system (IIS)
4. The adaptive use of previously acquired knowledge to analyze and understand new situations.
music synthesizer
Intelligence
Hacker
information and communication technology (ICT)
5. A small pictorial or graphical representation of a computer hardware function or component - or a computer software program - commonly associated with a graphical user interface.
Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)
Discussion
DVD
Icon
6. The incorrect or less appropriate alternative answers for a given multiple-choice question. Also called foils.
Design
Compact Disc (CD)
Distractors
Directed Instruction
7. A computer input device that permits the development of graphic images by translating drawing on the tablet into onscreen images.
Lossy compression
Aptitude-Treatment Interaction (ATI)
Instructional method
Graphics Tablet
8. The central processing unit - or brain - of the computer - which controls the functions of the rest of the system and performs all numeric calculations.
Case Study
English Language Learners (ELL)
CPU
Hits
9. According to learning theorists Benjamin Bloom and B. F. Skinner - an instructional approach in which students learn a sequence of objectives that define mastery of the subject; students pass tests on each objective to demonstrate they have mastered
Handicap
mastery learning
Event Driven
Database Management System (DBMS)
10. A video or computer display device. The most common output device for personal computers.
Field
Monitor
Conditional Information
Hard Disk
11. A computer database program that can store and manipulate students' grades.
Lossless and lossy compressions
Computer Gradebook
language translators (machine translation)
Authoring Software
12. Previously created graphics designed to be added to word processing or desktop publishing documents or to computer-based instruction.
Heart Rate Monitor
Clip Art
Analogy
inquiry-based learning
13. A printer that combines laser and photocopying technology to produce very high-quality output - comparable to that produced in typesetting. Laser printers can produce text as well as high-quality graphics and can achieve print densities of up to 1 -2
Laser printer
Advance Organizer
Electronic Publishing
Audio Video Interleave (AVI) Format
14. A type of information that includes facts - concepts - principles - and the relationships among them.
Declarative Information
Database
joystick
Haptic Interface
15. One of the devices (e.g. - a data glove) that allow users to experience a full immersion virtual reality system by providing tactile or touch input
Global Positioning System (GPS)
Motor skills
Foreign Language (FL)
Haptic Interface
16. Software designed to help teach information and/or skills related to a topic; also known as instructional software or courseware - computer-based instruction (CBI) - computer-based learning (CBL) - computer-assisted learning (CAL) - or generic terms
Gesture-Recognition System
multimedia
Computer-Assisted Instruction (CAI)
Electronic Portfolio (e-portfolio)
17. Adaptive technologies are designed specifically for persons with disabilities. These are devices that extend the abilities of an individual with special needs in ways that provide physical access (i.e. - wheelchairs - braces) and sensory access (i.e.
Hard Copy
LCD screen
Assistive Technology
Font
18. The process of taking a series of individual pictures -- called frames -- and stringing them together in a timed sequence to give the appearance of continuous motion. Animations are motion files - either in 2-D animation or 3-D animation. On the Web
Focusing Question
multiple intelligences theory
Animation
Integrated learning system (IIS)
19. An animation key frame is a single still image defined throughout an animated sequence that occurs at a pivotal point in that sequence.
Disequilibrium
Animation key frame
ASCII format
Foreign Language (FL)
20. Hardware such as a keyboard - mouse - or joystick through which the user sends instructions to the computer.
Input device
Interlacing
Attention
learner-centered instruction
21. Music-making equipment controlled by a Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) device
music synthesizer
Chat
Attitudes
Cycle Of Continuous Improvement
22. An outline - preview - or other such pre-instructional cue used to promote retention of content to be learned.
language translators (machine translation)
Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) format
Advance Organizer
Avatar Spaces
23. A standard adopted by the electronic music industry for controlling devices that play music; also known as musical instrument digital interface. Rather than recording sounds - MIDI instruments/software record finger action -- what note is being playe
Integrated learning system (IIS)
Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI)
Common Gateway Interface (CGI)
Algorithm
24. Software programs designed to perform a specific function for the user - such as processing text - performing calculations - and presenting content lessons.
Handicap
joystick
Display Boards
Applications
25. An event - object - or circumstance that prompts a behavior.
inert knowledge
Antecedent
Label
English as a Second Language (ESL)
26. Approximately a million bytes - or 1000 kilobytes.
music editor
Grammar Checker
Megabyte
Blog
27. An electronic go-between by which the computer communicates with a peripheral device.
Interface
Computer-Assisted Instruction (CAI)
Megabyte
Displayed Visuals
28. A pointing device used to select and move information on the computer display screen. When the mouse is moved along a flat surface such as a desktop - an arrow moves across the display screen in the same direction. The mouse typically has one to thre
Mouse
Instructional effectiveness
Flash
Digital Literacy
29. Growing problem of online harassment in social networks
laptop computer
Gesture-Recognition System
Cyberbullying
Crowdsourcing
30. 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
Intelligent tutoring system
Internet
interactive whiteboard activity software
Bit
31. Short for 'web log -' a web page that serves as a publicly accessible location for discussing a topic or issue; began as personal journals and expanded to become public discussion forums in which anyone can give opinions on a topic
Chat
Computer-Assisted Testing (CAT)
Blog
Home Page
32. A type of learning that refers to the ability to recall specific information.
information literacy
Database
Knowledge
Digital Camera
33. In desktop publishing - the first letter of a paragraph that is enlarged to 'drop' down two or more line. Drop caps are often seen at the beginning of newsletter article - where the top of the first letter of the first word lines up with the top of t
Generative Processing
learning hierarchies
Datafile
Drop cap
34. Most animation software lets developers specify a beginning position and an ending position - then calculates the positions in between.
Animation - path
integrated packages
Hard Copy
Handheld Technologies
35. Each individual category of information recorded in a database; the smallest unit of information in a database
Field
Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI)
information visualization
Motivation
36. The process of translating principles of learning and instruction into plans for instructional materials and activities.
Keyboard
Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) format
information visualization
Designing Instruction
37. Device consisting of a transmitter - which senses the heartbeat from the heart's electrical impulses - and a wristwatch receiver - which receives and records each beat through radio transmission from the transmitter
Discovery Learning
Heart Rate Monitor
Monitor
Data Loggers
38. The use of audio teleconferencing accompanied by the transmission of still pictures and graphics via slow-scan video - fax - or an electronic graphics tablet.
Animation
Audiographics
Favorites File
Lossless and lossy compressions
39. According to learning theorist Howard Gardner - nine different and relatively independent types of intelligence that may be fostered by differentiated instruction and assessment
Artificial intelligence (AI)
Field
multiple intelligences theory
integrating educational technology
40. 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
Compression and extraction tools
Educational Media
Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC)
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
41. A distance education technology that uses a speakerphone to extend a basic telephone call and permits instruction and interaction between individuals or groups at two or more locations.
Heuristic
Audio Teleconferencing
Educational Technology
Intrinsic motivation
42. Designates a type of learning of English that occurs after a student achieves some level of proficiency in another - native language; more commonly-used term is now English Language Learning or ELL
English as a Second Language (ESL)
Behavior
Design
Extraneous Processing
43. A type of learning that refers to the ability to perform complex physical actions in a smooth - coordinated manner.
imagemap
Motor skills
Filtering Software
Authoring Software
44. A question typically used at the beginning of a lesson to direct students' attention to particularly important aspects of the new information.
Mailing list
instructional software
learning hierarchies
Focusing Question
45. Software tools that automatically draw and print desired charts or graphs from data entered by users
Byte
Flowcharting
Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL)
Charting/Graphing Tool
46. Software tools that create documents and web pages with 'fillable' forms
Classical Conditioning
Designing Instruction
Forms Makers
Backbone
47. Graphics generally use RGB (Red - Green - and Blue) or CMYK colors. While graphics on the Web or designed for on-screen display are RGB images - both commercial offset printing and inkjet desktop printing utilize CMYK. Dots of cyan (blue) - magenta (
ARPAnet
Classroom Observation
Cloud Computing
CMYK graphics
48. A combination input and output device that allows a computer to communicate with another computer over telephone or cable TV lines; (short for modulator-demodulator) converts digital computer information into sound (and vice versa) for transmission o
Microprocessor
Charting/Graphing Tool
Case Study
Modem
49. Subject matter expert who volunteers to work closely with students online
Emoticons
Data Mining
Computer Program
Electronic Mentor
50. Inhibited functioning created by excessive demands being placed on memory and/or other cognitive processes.
CRT
Database filters and queries
Cognitive Overload
Cloud Computing