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Schools&SocietyWGU
Technology Vocab. Ch.13
Question | Answer |
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Assistive Technology | A set of adaptive tools that support students with disabilities in learning activities and daily life tasks. |
Computer-mediated communicaton (CMC), telecommunication between people via electronic mail. | |
Simulation | Programs, either in software or Web-based form, that model a system or process. |
Bulletin Board | An electronic message center for a given topic. |
Hypermedia | A link form of multimedia that allows learners to make connections to different points in the program based on their background knowledge and learning progress. |
Software | Digitally stored data such as computer programs and other kinds of information read and written by computer |
Chatroom | A site on the Internet where many people can simultaneously communicate in real time. |
Icon | Pictures displayed on computer screens that act as symbols for some action or item. |
Spreadsheet Program | Computer programs that are used to organize and manipulate numerical data. |
Computer literacy | the knowledge and ability to use computers and technology efficiently. |
Instructional Technology | "the theory and practice of design, development, utilization, management, and evaluation of processes and resources for learning," |
Tutorial | A software program that delivers an entire integrated instructional sequence similar to a teacher's instruction on the topic. |
Database program | A computer program that allows users to store, organize, and manipulate information, including both text and nemerical data. |
Internet | The complex web of interconnections among computers that allows people to communicate and share information worldwide. |
URL | Uniform Resource locator- A series of letters and/or symbols that acts as an address for a site on the internet. |
Distance Education | Organized instructional programs in which teachers and learners, though physically separated, are connected through technology. |
Problem-based learning | An instructional strategy that uses a problem and the data gathered in attempts to solve it as the focal point of a lesson. |
Web sites | A location on the World Wide Web identified with a uniform resource locator (URL). |