New Tech Basics
How It Works
Benefits
Drawbacks
Vocabulary Challenge
100

This type of experience lets users explore digital worlds as if they were real.

Answer: What is virtual reality?


100

Websites that allow users to respond, comment, or play games are described as this.

Answer: What is interactive?


100

This technology benefit allows people from different countries to communicate instantly.

Answer: What is easy access to a global network?


100

Not everyone can afford new technology. This problem is known as digital ______.

Answer: What is inequality?


100

This word means “fair opportunity for everyone to have technology.”

Answer: What is reducing inequality?


200

This term describes platforms where people communicate and share content online, such as news and videos.

Answer: What is media?


200

This word means creating or making something. Technology helps factories do this faster.

Answer: What is produce?


200

Virtual reality and simulations allow students to learn in safe, fun, and ______ environments.

Answer: What are interactive environments?


200

Robots or automation might cause some workers to lose their jobs.

Answer: What is being displaced?


200

This type of energy doesn't run out and helps reduce carbon emissions.

Answer: What is renewable energy?


300

This word describes a connected system that allows information to travel between devices.

Answer: What is a network?


300

Many people now have this ability to search for information instantly using phones or computers.

Answer: What is access?


300

Clean energy technology helps reduce pollution and protect the environment.

Answer: What is using renewable technology?


300

Some people get incorrect information when they trust everything online.

Answer: What is unreliable media?


300

These tools allow students to practice learning by clicking, moving, or choosing options.

Answer: What are interactive tools?


400

AI tools that create images, essays, or music fall into this category.

Answer: What is debate generation technology?

(You can also say “generative AI.”)


400

The goal of new technology companies is often to grow and create value in this area of society.

Answer: What is the economic sector?


400

AI tools can help teachers and students by quickly creating materials and ideas.

Answer: What is debate generation (generative) technology?


400

Spending too much time in virtual worlds may reduce real-life social interaction.

Answer: What is social isolation?


400

This happens when workers lose jobs to machines.

Answer: What is being displaced?


500

Solar panels and wind turbines are examples of this type of energy source.

Answer: What is renewable energy?

500

This term describes what happens to certain jobs when machines or robots take over the work.

Answer: What is being displaced?

500

Online businesses can grow quickly and cheaply, improving this type of growth.

Answer: What is economic development?

500

Fast technological change sometimes harms the environment, even when producing renewable devices.

Answer: What is pollution from how we produce technology?

500

AI and robot systems need a strong one of these to communicate and share information.

Answer: What is a network?