Tech
A tech process in which machines produce 3-D solid objects based on coded instructions.
What is 3-D printing?
Applying prior knowledge and critical thinking strategies to develop answers or solutions to a problem.
Knowing how to use data, models, simulations, and algorithmic thinking to formulate and solve problems.
What is computational thinking?
Online learning environments where students interact as game players, often through the use of avatars.
What is virtual worlds?
Games that are downloaded to a personal device.
What is desktop-based games?
Sequence of written commands that tell a computer what a programmer wants the machine to do.
What is coding?
Online identity adopted by students and teachers when playing games or participating in virtual reality simulations.
What is avatar?
Using game playing to motivate people to use tech for specific purposes, such as buying a product or learning a skill.
What is gamification?
What is objecting-oriented programming?
Learning or entertainment activities, often featuring virtual worlds, avatars, and competition for points and a winning score.
What is computer-and web-based games?
Academic learning included within the structures of online or software and app-based game formats.
Areas in school and libraries devoted to enabling students to design, tinker, invent, and construct based on their ideas and interests.
What is Makerspaces?
Using games to teach academic content to students.
What is game-based learning?
Recreations of real-world situations and settings in a game-like format.
What is simulation games?
A do-it-yourself community where people create and build objects of all kinds with electronics, robotics, smart materials, and 3-D printers.
What is Maker Movement?