Tech Terms
What is the mouse or trackpad?
The name of a program/app used for essays and writing.
What is Word or Google Docs?
What is coding?
An app used by teachers to assign and grade work.
What is Google Classroom?
The part of a device that is used for typing.
What is a keyboard?
A type of coding that uses 1s and 0s.
What is binary?
The name of browsers used to access the internet. (Give examples)
What are Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge, and/or Internet Explorer?
A mechanical device that receives and follows code.
What is a robot?
This is scanned by a camera to open a website.
What is a QR code?
The visual display of a computer or device.
What is the monitor or screen?
The address where a website is located on the internet.
What is URL?
What is PowerPoint or Google Slides?
Chunks of code created to help beginners learn coding.
What are blocks?
An app used to set privacy and restrictions on the device.
What is Settings?
The storage of a computer.
What is the hard drive?
The blinking line or shape on the screen that tells you where the next character goes.
What is the cursor?
Name two different operating systems.
What are
Windows and Mac
OR
Android and Apple
The code/directions given to a computer to execute a plan.
What is an algorithm?
An app that stores all files on a Google account.
What is Google Drive?
Buttons used to navigate websites and to move the cursor.
What are the arrow keys?
A software program that allows you to explore the World Wide Web/Internet.
What is a browser?
The name of a program/app that is used to make spreadsheets.
What is Excel or Google Sheets?
The three types of coding in Sphero.
What are draw, blocks, and text?
An app used to organize schedules.
What is the calendar?
The thing that gives power to a portable device.
What is a charger?