Contemporary Trends
Pressing Issues
Information Technology
Globalization and Education
Globalization and Today's Schools
100
This is a learning environment for students with disabilities that, to the greatest extent possible, matches the environment experienced by nondisabled students.
What is an LRE- least restrictive environment?
100
A formal process, such as a legal or administrative proceeding, that follows established rules designed to protect the rights of the people involved.
What is due process?
100
An online site that allows visitors to add, remove, and otherwise edit or change the available content.
What is a wiki?
100
Friedman's comments in this book refer to the changing structure of organizations and their impact on the economy.
What is the World is Flat?
100
An economic system in which the use and exchange of knowledge plays a dominant role. In this kind of economy, knowledge is both an economic asset and a key product.
What is knowledge economy?
200
Publicly funded elementary or secondary schools that are granted a special charter by the state or local education agency.
What is a charter school?
200
Students who require special educational services because of physical, behavioral, or academic needs.
Who are exceptional learners?
200
Proficiency in the use of technology, including an understanding of the way technology systems operate and the ability to use technology to access information from a wide variety of sources.
What is technological fluency?
200
The current time in which we live characterized by individuals’ abilities to access and freely transfer information.
What is the Information Age?
200
Real-time audio and video communication allowing individuals or groups at different locations to talk in a face-to-face setting.
What is videoconferencing?
300
An instructional approach in which students work together in groups to accomplish shared learning goals.
What is cooperative learning?
300
A federal law requiring educational agencies to protect the confidentiality of students’ educational records.
What is the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) or the Buckley Amendment?
300
A computer program or other procedure that imitates a real-world experience.
What is a simulation?
300
The three "C" skills that have replaced the “three Rs” of education.
What are connectivity, communication, and collaboration?
300
An institution that exists in cyberspace, teaching all of its classes online.
What is virtual school?
400
The practice of using a variety of instructional strategies to address the different learning needs of students.
What is differentiated instruction?
400
A plan, required for every student covered by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, specifying instructional goals, services to be provided, and assessment techniques for evaluating progress.
What is inclusion?
400
A device or service that increases the capabilities of people with disabilities.
What is assistive technology (AT)?
400
Acronym for manage, interpret, validate, and act—terms describing what students must learn to do with the vast amount of information they access on a daily basis
What is MIVA?
400
The understanding of your own thinking and learning processes.
What is metacognition?
500
A teaching method that engages students in extended inquiry into complex, realistic questions as they work in teams and create presentations to share what they have learned. These presentations may take various forms: an oral or written report, a computer technology-based presentation, a video, the design of a product, and so on.
What is project-based learning?
500
A service delivery system in schools aimed at preventing academic and behavioral difficulties as well as identifying the best practices for teaching students with disabilities.
What is Response to Intervention?
500
The division between people who are “rich” in technological access and expertise and those who are “poor” in this respect.
What is the digital divide?
500
The increase of global connectivity, integration, and interdependence in economic, cultural, social, and technological spheres
What is globalization?
500
Webinteractive video games, podcasts, and lesson plans downloaded to digital devices such as laptops, mobile devices, DVDs, and CDs
What is digital media?
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