Students who are growing up using digital technology
What is iGeneration?
100
Using computers and the Internet to share personal information and connect with people online
What is social networking?
100
Lightweight, portable computers
What are laptops?
100
Short for application: software programs used on smartphones or mobile devices
What are apps?
100
Mobile computers with touchscreen capacity and virtual keyboards; for example an Apple iPad or Android device such as Samsung Galaxy, Asus Eee Pad, or Google Nexus
What are tablets?
200
Wireless telephones that also serve as portable computing devices for accessing the Internet, texting, taking and sending pictures and video, and performing other communication functions
What are smartphones?
200
Knowing how to use technology to create, share and analyze information and to solve problems collaboratively
What are 21st century literacies?
200
A powerful information-processing machine that manipulates data by following instructions given by human programmers
What is a computer?
200
E-books and other learning materials for students using technology
What are technology-based textbooks?
200
Interactive uses of the Internet, including blogs, wikis, social networking, and other collaborative methods of information creation and exhange
What are Web 2.0 tools?
300
Online forms of communication and interaction, including blogs, wikis, social networks, microblogs, video chats, and other tools
What is social media?
300
Technological talents, skills, and competencies of teachers
What is digital identity?
300
Anywhere, anytime learning opportunities that teachers and students can access both in and outside of school
What is a technology-based learning environment?
300
Professional work that is organized and managed electronically
What is a technology-based office?
300
A Web 2.0 tool that can be used to save links to sites by "pinning" the site to a board.
What is Pinterest?
400
A Web 2.0 tool that allows you to make "word clouds" by copying and pasting works (i.e. a poem) into the app
What is Wordle?
400
Integration by teachers of academic content, instructional strategies, and technology use in designing, delivering, and assessing lessons for students
What is technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK)?
400
A website that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and hyperlinks provided by the writer or author
What is a blog?
400
Standards for evaluating the skills and knowledge needed to teach, work and learn in an increasingly connected global and digital society.
What are technology standards?
400
The professional organization that determines the standards for technology learning for students and teachers.
What is ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education)?