Software programs that read aloud whatever a student has written.
What is a text to speech?
200
A small graphic that represents one of the system's options.
What is an icon?
300
An essential skill stet that not only must be acquired but continually updated.
What is Educational Technology Literacy?
300
Sensory preferences that impact learning.
What are learning styles?
300
Includes all conditions, circumstances, and influences that affect the learner's development.
What is the learning environment?
300
Reduces the effect of poor acoustics in the classroom.
What is an assistive listening device?
300
Includes any computer peripheral that you might use to enter data into the computer.
What is an input device.
400
Act requiring students finishing the eighth grade to be technologically literate.
What is NCLB (No Child Left Behind) Act.
400
Focus on learning as a mental operation that takes place when information enters through the sense, undergoes mental manipulation, is stored, then finally used.
What is the cognitivist perspective?
400
Methods you will use to assist your student in achieving the objectives.
What are teaching strategies?
400
A computer monitor screen that responds to human touch.
What is a touch screen?
400
A single colored dot on the monitor screen that when combined with other picture elements forms an image.
What is a pixel.
500
The current evolution of librarians in the Information Age.
Who are Media Specialists?
500
Inherent capacity to understand and learn.
What is intelligence?
500
A sequence of methods that promote effective instruction.
What is the pedgogical cycle?
500
An approach that recognizes and targets instruction to the varying abilities found in the same classroom.
What is differentiated instruction?
500
Programs used to detect and destroy computer viruses.