Term | Definition |
Assistive technology | A set of adaptive tools that support students with disabilities in learning activities and daily life tasks. |
simulation | programs, either software or web-based, that model a system or process |
bulletin board | electronic message center for a given topic |
hypermedia | a linked form of multimedia that allows learners to make connections with different points in the program based on their background knowledge and learning progress |
chat room | site on the internet where many people can simultaneously communicate in real time |
internet | The complex web of interconnections among computers that allows people to communicate and share information worldwide. |
URL | uniform resource locator; 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 | instructional strategy that uses a problem and the data gathered attempts to solve it as the focal point of a lesson. More open-ended than problem solving. |
websites | A location on the WWW identified with a uniform resource locator (URL) |
icon | pictures displayed on computer screens that act as symbols for some action or item |
spreadsheet program | – organize and manipulate data - usually numerical |
computer literacy | |
instructional technology | |
tutorial | – software that delivers an entire integrated instructional sequence similar to the teacher’s instruction on the topic. |
database program | – allows users to store, organize, manipulate data. |