Approach to learning that places students' questions, ideas, and observations at the centre of the learning experience.
What is inquiry-based learning?
This type of citizenship refers to roles and responsibilities for acting ethically and safely in digital environments.
What is digital citizenship?
This type of learning represents academic experiences achieved through a combination of face-to-face and online classes.
What is blended learning?
These are regularly-updated online journals or websites where writers post information that can be read and responded to by readers.
What are blogs (abbreviation of weblogs)?
Known-in-advance criteria explaining to students the process for grading and knowing if an assignment is completed.
What is a rubric?
Process of actively reflecting on one's thinking and learning, referred to as “thinking about thinking”.
What is metacognitive thinking?
These types of technologies support lesson development by minimizing barriers to learning and making academic material more accessible to students.
What are assistive technologies?
This type of learning refers to the delivery of educational experiences using technologies where teachers and students interact virtually.
What is online learning (a.k.a., distance learning or e-learning)?
In this instructional approach, teachers and students use technology while working together in small groups to investigate topics, solve problems, and share information.
Lack of access to interactive digital technologies by low-income students, diverse learners, and older individuals.
What is digital inequality?
In this type of classroom, the teacher's role pivots from dispenser of information to manager of individual and group learning experiences.
What is a flipped classroom?
These assessments are used to evaluate student knowledge and performance while a lesson is being taught.
What are formative assessments?
These videos have embedded questions, quizzes, or dialogues for students to answer.
These systems enable active learning, encourage student involvement with academic material, facilitate question-centered instruction, and provide real-time feedback.
What are student participation/response systems?
This term can be used to describe the differences in technological knowledge and interest between students and teachers.
What is a digital disconnect?
Statements, projects, or actions by students or teachers that express new or out-of-the ordinary ideas or approaches.
Presentation of information using words, pictures, sound, and data.
What is multimedia?
In this instructional approach, students rotate through three different activities or centers, including meeting with a teacher, doing independent work, and using technology.
What is one/two/three time instructional mode?
This type of literacy encompasses the skills of reading and understanding all forms of information, paper and digital.
What is information literacy?
Assessment of student learning accomplishments using presentations, book reports, journal entries, portfolios, science experiments, and class projects.
Using this technology, individuals share information and profiles by text messaging, chatting, blogging, and participating in online communities.
What is social networking?
This type of instruction is effective, adaptive, and responsive to students’ readiness, interests, and learning abilities.
This process makes technology a central feature of teaching and learning in schools.