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Technology word term
WGU FST4 Technology word term
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Assistive technology | A set of adaptive tools that support students with disabilities in learning activities and daily life tasks. |
| The electronic version of sending a letter. | |
| 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 linked form of multimedia that allows learners to make connections to different points in the program based on their background knowledge and learning progress. |
| Software | Applications which when loaded on the computer allows the user to perform inumerable functions and tasks. |
| Internet | A system of linked computers. |
| Chat room | A site on the Internet where many people can simultaneously communicate in real time. |
| URL | (Uniform Resource Locator) A series of letters and/or symbols acts as an address. |
| 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. |
| Website | A location on the World Wide Web identified with a uniform resource locator (URL). |
| Icons | Little pictures on the screen which represent files or other computer applications. |
| 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. Stand-alone instruction. |
| computer literacy | the knowledge and ability to use computers and related technology efficiently |
| instructional technology | the theory and practice of design, development, utilization, management, and evaluation of processes and resources for learning |
| database program | a computer program whose primary purpose is entering and retrieving information from a computer-managed database |
| distance education | a mode of delivering education and instruction, often on an individual basis, to students who are not physically present in a traditional setting such as a classroom |