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Technology Applications: General Concepts 1
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1. 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.
LCD projector
learner-centered instruction
Discussion
Foreign Language Dictionaries
2. Research finding that formats that are beneficial for one group have a negative impact on a group with the opposite characteristic
Compression and extraction tools
Aptitude-Treatment Interaction (ATI)
Cognitive Overload
Chat
3. Type of virtual reality (VR) system in which i a user places a headset (e.g. - goggles or a helmet) over the eyes to provide a channel through which the wearer 'sees' (i.e. - is immersed in) a computer-generated environment
Full Immersion Systems
Assistive Technology
Electronic Whiteboard
Imagery
4. A highlighted position indicator used on the computer screen.
Culture
Common Gateway Interface (CGI)
Cursor
Cybercheating
5. Online environments in which users can interact through their graphic representations (i.e. - avatars)
Image Editing Programs
Computer Program
Avatar Spaces
Input device
6. Instructional format that combines elements of face-to-face teaching and learning with elements of distance education. Also known as blended learning.
Emoticons
Hybrid Learning
Declarative Information
Electronic Whiteboard
7. Tools offered through a special Google site that provide users access to online programs for word processing - spreadsheets - and presentations; the site offers storage of documents on a Google server and allows for sharing of documents among multipl
Byte
Applications
Logo
Google Docs
8. The specific items used in a lesson and delivered through various media formats - such as video - audio - print - and so on.
Charting/Graphing Tool
Instructional materials
Monitor
Instructional technology
9. In cognitive load theory - cognitive processes that are required for making sense of material a person is trying to learn can overwhelm learner's cognitive capacity unless strategies are in place to handle it by learning theorist Robert Gagné as bein
meta-analysis
HTML 5
Mnemonic
Essential Processing
10. 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
Content expert
Interactive media
Mouse
Byte
11. Storage inside the computer. The CPU in a personal computer retrieves and deposits information in the computer's internal memory. Also called main memory.
Blood Pressure Devices
Graphing Calculator
Cookie
Internal memory
12. 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
music editor
Constructivist Learning
Computer-Managed Instruction
multimedia
13. A computer system that stores and manipulates a database of information about geographic locations; users see data pertaining to a geographic location overlaid on a map of the area
Geographic Information System (GIS)
Absolute address or absolute positioning
Frame
Backbone
14. 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
Bandwidth
Electronic Mentor
Inkjet printer
Implementation
15. A device that assists with analyzing and monitoring physical fitness levels by determining the percent of body fat
Geospatial Technologies
Electronic Mail (email)
Instructional designer
Body Composition Analyzer
16. Professional organization for music educators
mobile device
Electronic Portfolio (e-portfolio)
Label
Musical Educators National Conference (MENC)
17. Flaming messages are messages which express overly strong feelings. Spam is the term for e-mail junk mail - which should not be for¬warded. Chain letters are letters that have been forwarded from several previous e-mail readers. According to netiquet
Handicap
Flaming - spam - and chain letter
Geospatial Technologies
Hard Disk
18. Classroom display that allow teachers or students to interact with the computer through a touch sensitive board on which the computer screen is projected.
Electronic Whiteboard
Multimedia authoring programs
Label
Hard Copy
19. Each individual category of information recorded in a database; the smallest unit of information in a database
Discussion
Automaticity
FAQ
Field
20. Using technology to accommodate difficulties individuals have with performing specific tasks - e.g. - providing speech recognition software to those with physical disabilities that limit their use of a pencil or a keyboard
Compensation
Electronic Mentor
CLI
Information activity
21. A type of instructional activity that leads students to want to learn and to put in the effort required for learning.
Motivation activity
Implementation
Compact Disc (CD)
Calculator-Based Lab (CBL)
22. 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
Compact Disc (CD)
Key word
Formula
Classical Conditioning
23. Pictures of people that focus on just the head or from mid-chest and up are called mug shots. Mug shots are often used in newsletters - newspapers - school yearbooks and company directories. Mug shots of feature columnists may appear next to their co
Mug shots
Cycle Of Continuous Improvement
Feedback
English as a Second Language (ESL)
24. Sometimes referred to as the ADDIE model - the current version of systems approach of instructional design is a process comprised of a series of phases: analysis - design - development - implementation - and evaluation. Currently - almost all ISD mod
Distance Education
microcomputer-based lab (MBL)
Disequilibrium
ADDIE model
25. The smallest amount of information that the CPU can deal with; a single binary digit.
DVD
Modem
Application Activity
Bit
26. A compact disc format for storing motion video and computer data. Sometimes called digital video disc or digital versatile disc; a standard single-layer - single-sided DVD can store 4.7GB of data. These high-capacity optical discs can store large fil
Interactive media
FAQ
Computer-Managed Instruction
DVD
27. 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
Input device
Assistive Technology
Constructivism
Algorithm
28. 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.
High-Level Language
CPU
Keyboard
Macro
29. 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
Heuristic
HTML 5
instructional software
Keyboard
30. A set of related principles explaining changes in human performance or performance potential in terms of the causes of those changes.
Computer Gradebook
Learning Theory
Cognitive Load
ARPAnet
31. The process of translating information into some meaningful form that can be remembered.
Admission Review and Dismissal (ARD)
Interlacing
Algorithm
Encoding
32. An outline - preview - or other such pre-instructional cue used to promote retention of content to be learned.
MP3
Internet
Learning environment
Advance Organizer
33. A computer language that contains instructions that resemble natural language and that does not require knowledge of the inner workings of the computer to use successfully.
Multimedia authoring programs
malware
High-Level Language
Mosaic
34. Programs that allow teachers to author and display lessons for use with interactive whiteboard systems
Electronic Publishing
Inclusion
interactive whiteboard activity software
Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI)
35. 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
Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL)
Contingencies Of Reinforcement
Cognitive Load
Global Positioning System (GPS)
36. An image format used for drawn images - illustrations - clip art - or animations; It is universally acceptable on the Web. Images in the this format are restricted to 256 colors (best - actually 216 'web-safe' colors). The format is suited to images
meta-analysis
GIF (Graphics Interchange Format)
Graphics Tablet
Copyright
37. A type of instructional activity designed to determine how well students have mastered lesson objectives.
Advance Organizer
Bitmap and vector graphics
Evaluation Activity
Geospatial Technologies
38. A form of education in which some means - electronic or otherwise - is used to connect people with instructors and/or resources that can help them acquire knowledge and skills; structured learning that takes place without the physical presence of the
Dithering
Distance Education
Contingencies Of Reinforcement
Cybercheating
39. A large-capacity magnetic storage medium for computer data. Also called a fixed disk - it remains sealed within the case of most computers to protect it from dust - smoke - and other contaminants.
Email Address
Internal memory
Hard Disk
multiple intelligences theory
40. One of the rights accorded to the owner of copyright is the right to reproduce or to authorize others to reproduce the work in copies or phonorecords. This right is subject to certain limitations found in sections 107 through 118 of the copyright law
Alternative Keyboard
mastery learning
Java applets
Fair Use
41. Applying scientific knowledge about human learning to the practical tasks of teaching and learning; the subset of educational technology that deals directly with teaching and learning applications (as opposed to educational administrative application
Hard Copy
Instructional technology
mainstreaming
Computer Program
42. The collection of all related records in a database.
Aptitude-Treatment Interaction (ATI)
Datafile
Cyberbullying
Mug shots
43. The use of graphical symbols instead of text commands to control common computer functions such as copying programs and disks; a GUI is where the user clicks on a visual screen that has icons - windows and menus - by using a pointing device - such as
Bulletin Board (BB)
Graphical User Interface (GUI)
integrated packages
Flowcharting
44. A machine that processes information according to a set of instructions.
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
Attitudes
Computer
Mouse
45. Any practical device used to make information easier to remember - including rhymes - acronyms - and acrostics.
Mnemonic
mastery learning
Compact Disc (CD)
High-Level Language
46. 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.
Generative Processing
Filtering Software
Key word
Design
47. A teaching and learning model based on behavioral and cognitive theories; students receive information from teachers and do teacher-directed activities
Key word
Digital Camera
Compensation
Directed Instruction
48. 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.
multiple intelligences theory
Learning environment
Assistive Technology
Digital Divide
49. A statement that likens something new to something familiar. Analogies are typically used either to make abstract information more concrete or to organize complex information.
Analogy
Filtering Software
Favorites File
Library/media specialist
50. High definition DVD format
Case Study
Iris
instructional software
Blu-Ray Disc