Learning or entertainment activities, often featuring virtual worlds, avatars, and competition for points and a winning score
What is Web-Based Games?
Knowing how to use data, models, simulations, and algorithmic thinking to formulate and solve problems
What is Computational Thinking?
Areas in schools and libraries devoted to enabling students to design, tinker, invent, and construct based on their ideas and interests
What is Makerspaces?
Issues that do not have easy or simple solutions
What is Ill-Structured Problems?
Sequence of written commands that tell a computer what a programmer wants the machine to do
What is Coding?
Recreations of real-world situations and settings in a game-like format
What is a Simulation Game?
Software that records and extends thinking and brainstorming with pictures and webs
What is Visual Thinking Tools?
Approach to instruction in classrooms emphasizing learning by making
What is Maker-Based Learning?
Approach to curriculum and instruction organized around problems or issues for students to solve
What is Problem-Based Learning?
A technology process in which machines produce three-dimensional solid objects based on coded instructions
What is 3-D Printing?
Academic learning included within the structures of online or software and app-based game formats
What is a Serious Game?
Software that allows teachers and students to create an object and make it do things in response to programmed instructions
What is Object-Oriented Programming?
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 the Maker Movement?
Applying prior knowledge and critical thinking strategies to develop answers or solutions to a problem
What is Problem Solving?
Students and teachers designing, constructing, and using robots as part of a school curriculum
What is Robotics?