Tech Terms
Tech in the Classroom
New Trends
Tech Around the World
Tech History
100
A term for business over the Internet. Web sites such as Amazon.com, Buy.com, and eBay are all a part of this.
What is e-commerce?
100
We used this tool for a collaborative writing assignment.
What is Google docs?
100
This company is making driverless cars.
What is Google?
100
According to a 2016 study, this country has the most Internet users in the world at over 641 million.
What is China?
100
This important invention enabled personal computers to come on the market in the 1970s.
What is the microprocessor?
200
Going through large amounts of data to find new, useful information.
What is a data mining?
200
This tool can be used to create surveys and quizzes online.
What is surveymonkey?
200
This company is developing drones to ship and deliver things you buy?
What is Amazon?
200
In 1993, less than 1 percent of the world population used the Internet. The percentage of people using the Internet in 2014 is approximately this. (10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, or 100 percent)
What is 40%?
200
This was born in the 1980s when the National Science foundation formed the NSFNET, linking five supercomputer centers at Princeton University, Pittsburgh, University of California at San Diego, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Cornell University.
What is the Internet?
300
A digital currency that was introduced in 2009. There is no physical version of the currency, so all transactions take place over the Internet.
What is bitcoin?
300
This is a free online version of photoshop.
What is SumoPaint?
300
This company recently released a computer wristwatch.
What is Apple or Google?
300
This African country has the largest percentage of users on the continent at over 9 percent.
What is Nigeria?
300
This video game was released in 1989, when Maxis cofounder Will Wright built on his childhood interest in plastic models of ships and airplanes, eventually starting up a company with Jeff Braun and designing a computer program that allowed the user to create his own city.
What is SimCity?
400
A number symbol (#) used to label keywords in a tweet. The name was coined by Twitter.
What is a hashtag?
400
This is an online tool you can use to record your screen for a flipped lesson.
What is screencast-o-matic?
400
Google created this computer product to wear on your head.
What is Google Glass?
400
This term refers to a social issue of the differing amount between those who have access to the Internet (specially broadband access) and those who do not have access.
What is the digital divide?
400
This open source operating system was designed by Finnish university student Linus Torvalds in 1991. Almost immediately, enthusiasts began developing and improving on it, such as adding support for peripherals and improving its stability.
What is Linux?
500
Sometimes abbreviated PnP, this is a catchy phrase used to describe devices that work with a computer system as soon as they are connected.
What is plug-n-play?
500
This is a tool you can use to create digital narratives.
What is animoto?
500
The president of Telsa Motors said this is the biggest detriment to the human race.
What is artificial intelligence?
500
Just behind India, this country has the third most Internet users in the world.
What is the United States?
500
This is the year that Microsoft released Word. (1965, 1975, 1985, 1995, or 2005)
What is 1985?