Tech
Games
Computer & Creativity
100

A tech process in which machines produce 3-D solid objects based on coded instructions. 

What is 3-D printing?

100

Applying prior knowledge and critical thinking strategies to develop answers or solutions to a problem. 

What is problem solving?
100

Knowing how to use data, models, simulations, and algorithmic thinking to formulate and solve problems. 

What is computational thinking?

200

Online learning environments where students interact as game players, often through the use of avatars. 

What is virtual worlds?

200

Games that are downloaded to a personal device. 

What is desktop-based games?

200

Sequence of written commands that tell a computer what a programmer wants the machine to do. 

What is coding?

300

Online identity adopted by students and teachers when playing games or participating in virtual reality simulations. 

What is avatar?

300

Using game playing to motivate people to use tech for specific purposes, such as buying a product or learning a skill. 

What is gamification?

300
Software that allows teachers and students to create an object and make it do things in response to programmed instructions. 

What is objecting-oriented programming?

400

Learning or entertainment activities, often featuring virtual worlds, avatars, and competition for points and a winning score. 

What is computer-and web-based games?

400

Academic learning included within the structures of online or software and app-based game formats.

What is serious games?
400

Areas in school and libraries devoted to enabling students to design, tinker, invent, and construct based on their ideas and interests. 

What is Makerspaces?

500

Using games to teach academic content to students. 

What is game-based learning? 

500

Recreations of real-world situations and settings in a game-like format. 

What is simulation games?

500

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?

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