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Technology&Education
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Assistive Technology | A set of adaptive tools that support students with disabilities in learning activities and daily life tasks. |
Bulletin Board | An electronic message center for a given topic. |
Chat Room | A site on the Internet where many people can simultaneously communicate in real time. |
Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) | Telecommunication between people via electronic mail (e-mail). |
Database Program | A computer program that allows users to store, organize, and manipulate information, including both text and numerical data. |
Distance Learning | Organized instructional programs in which teachers and learners, though physically separated, are connected through technology. |
Drill-and-Practice Programs | Software designed to provide extensive practice with feedback. |
Educational Technology | A combination of the processes and tools involved in addressing educational needs and problems. |
Hypermedia | A linked form of multimedia that allows learners to make connections to different points in the program based on their background knowledge and learning progress. |
Icons | Pictures displayed on computer screens that act as symbols for some action or item. |
Internet | The complex web of interconnections among computers that allows people to communicate and share information worldwide. |
Multimedia | Combinations of media, including text, graphics, pictures, audio, and video that are designed to communicate information. |
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. |
Simulations | Programs, either in software or Web-based form, that model a system or process. |
Spreadsheet Programs | Computer programs that are used to organize and manipulate numerical data. |
Tutorial | A software program that delivers an entire integrated instructional sequence similar to a teacher’s instruction on the topic. |
Uniform Resource Locator (URL) | A series of letters and/or symbols that acts as an address for a site on the Internet. |
Website | A location on the World Wide Web identified with a uniform resource locator (URL). |
World Wide Web | A system on the Internet that allows people to access, view, and maintain documents that include text, data, sound, and video. |
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Computer Literacy | |
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