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Technology Applications: General Concepts 1

Subjects : it-skills, literacy
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1. Instructional format that combines elements of face-to-face teaching and learning with elements of distance education. Also known as blended learning.






2. Programs that allow teachers to author and display lessons for use with interactive whiteboard systems






3. For learners of English and foreign languages - activities in which they use computers in language testing - teaching - and learning in and out of class






4. The process of translating information into some meaningful form that can be remembered.






5. Texts in digital form that may be read on a computer or e-book readers; becoming a popular alternative to printed texts






6. Actively collaborating with learners to determine what learning means and how it can be enhanced within each individual learner. An emphasis is placed on drawing on the learner's own unique talents - capacities - and experiences.






7. Music-making equipment controlled by a Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) device






8. Also known as a web browser - software designed to allow a computer user to go to Internet websites that are connected to each other via the World Wide Web (WWW)






9. Piagetian view of condition children experience when they confront new and unfamiliar features of their environment that do not fit with their current views of the world






10. The beta version of instructional software is a full-functioning version of the product with all known problems resolved. Both the client and the design team review the beta version to search for problems that will need to be addressed. Since the bet






11. A type of learning that refers to the ability to recall specific information.






12. A collection of components that includes the computer and all of the devices used with it.






13. 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






14. Devices that record data over time with sensors






15. An outline - preview - or other such pre-instructional cue used to promote retention of content to be learned.






16. Ancillary feature of word processors that identifies a range of grammatical and format errors such as improper capitalization - lack of subject-verb agreement - split infinitives - and so on.






17. A shortcut to encoding a series of actions in a computer program. Provides the means to perform a number of separate steps through a single command.






18. A liquid crystal display device used with a computer or VCR for large-group display.






19. Category of visuals that are generally exhibited on display boards - (e.g. - multipurpose boards - bulletin boards) and are not projected.






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






21. Ways of storing digitized images for use in webpages and multimedia products - e.g. - GIF - JPEG






22. Email additions; may be documents - graphics - or software.






23. Comprehension exercises with certain words removed to require students to fill in the blanks






24. An individual's preferred ways for processing and organizing information and for responding to environmental stimuli.






25. 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.






26. 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.






27. Advanced calculators that can graph equations - as well as perform calculation functions involved in higher-level math and science problems; allows users to enter equations and shows graphs that result from those equations






28. An online activity in which students look at a database of caches listed at a geocaching website (e.g. - http://www.geocaching.com) - decide on a cache to hunt for - use GPSs to help them locate it - and share their experiences with others involved i






29. Professional organization for music educators






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






31. Software that provides on-screen blank musical bars on which the user enters the musical key - time - and individual notes that constitute a piece of sheet music






32. A measure of the difference between what learners know before and after instruction; for example - Posttest - Pretest = Achievement.






33. The belief system that holds that humans construct all knowledge in their minds by participating in certain experiences; knowledge is the result of constructing both mechanisms for learning and one's own unique version of the knowledge - colored by b






34. A filter of an electronic database program allows application of a set of selection criteria or sorting instructions to the records in a table. When a database is closed - the selection criteria and/or sorting instructions will be wiped out. In contr






35. A type of instructional software tool consisting of hardware devices (probes) and software (probeware) to allow scientific data to be gathered and processed by a computer






36. A network created in 1969 by the U.S. government-funded Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) to enable communications among important defense sites in the event of a worldwide catastrophe such as a nuclear attack; later became the Internet






37. A measurement appraisal process that is ongoing - developmentally appropriate - and dynamic; the process of gathering evidence of learning.






38. The amount of working memory that is available to a learner to process new information and that is taken up at a given time by a learning task






39. 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






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






41. A set of guidelines used to reliably appraise or judge products or performances.






42. Not occurring at the same time - form of distance communications in which information and messages are left for the receiver to read later; contrasts with synchronous communications - in which information and messages are sent and received immediatel






43. A three-dimensional representation of a real object; it may be larger - smaller - or the same size as the object represented.






44. 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






45. Fundamental to most operating systems is the concept of files and directories (or folders). A file system in most operating resembles an inverted tree with the roots at the top and branches at the bottom. This tree structure uses directories or folde






46. An event - object - or circumstance that prompts a behavior.






47. Piagetian view of how children change their views of the world by incorporating new experiences






48. The most common input device; resembles the key layout of a typewriter.






49. Inhibited functioning created by excessive demands being placed on memory and/or other cognitive processes.






50. The incorrect or less appropriate alternative answers for a given multiple-choice question. Also called foils.