What does IT mean? (Acronyms)
Tech Trends
Whet Your "APPetite"
Viral Videos
Generation Mobile
100
Science. Technology. Engineering. Mathematics.
What is STEM?
100
This educational trend has students watching course content outside of the classroom to allow in class interaction between students and professors.
What is the flipped classroom?
100
This was one of the first free whiteboard APPs to allow drawing and recording of information for delivery to students in or out of the classroom. (EDUCators love it)
What is Educreations?
100
Ring-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding!
What does the fox say?
100
Those born into an innate "new culture" ( such as using digital technologies everywhere in life)?
Who are digital natives?
200
Moodle, Blackboard and others of these are used to provide a "one-stop shopping" platform for students to obtain course information and materials...
What is a LMS (Learning Management System)?
200
This trend is supported by an increasing tolerance and even excitement among teachers for mobile devices as learning tools.
What is Mobile Learning (or BYOD)?
200
This App allows you to keep your schedule straight on the iPad so you won't miss any classes or important (or not so important) meetings!
What is Calendar?
200
H5N1 or H3N2 are variations of this...
What are influenza strains (versions of the flu)?
200
The Cut and Paste Culture has lead to a substantial amount of this in our educational systems.
What is plagiarism?
300
STEAM
Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathematics
300
This trend has captured the imagination of some educators who are finding valuable content outside the prescribed realm of textbooks.
What is Open Content?
300
To keep your students from getting down in the dumps over difficult vocabulary and complex scientific processes, make flashcards and share them with students using this App.
What is StudyBlue?
300
In this 1996 movie, the Motaba virus caused the liquefaction of internal organs and excessive bleeding of those infected.
What was Outbreak?
300
The concept of users viewing sites that have been created specifically for their mobile device is part of this Paradigm Shift.
What is Mobile First (instead of having things designed for the desktop computer first)?
400
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act is a federal law that protects access to student records is more commonly called this.
What is FERPA?
400
This process uses data analysis to inform decisions made on every tier of the education system, leveraging student data to deliver personalized learning, enable adaptive pedagogies and practices, and identify learning issues in time for them to be solved.
What is Learning Analytics?
400
This fun and interactive game allows students to answer science questions in a race against time with other players around the world, either synchronously or a synchronously.
What is QuizUp?
400
In most movies in which a virus kills large populations of the world, this animal is usually portrayed as the carrier of the disease.
What is the monkey?
400
The digital generation's tech fatigue, noticed in 2010 and 2011, resulted in this phenomenon.
What is de-teching or the trend toward analog?
500
Students take the PSAT, the SAT, GRE, GMAT, MCAT, PCAT or other standardized tests to gain entrance to schools. What is the degree they earn upon completion of a doctoral program in Biochemistry?
What is a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D)?
500
This phenomenon of consumers being able to closely track data that is relevant to their daily activities through the use of technology allow for this trend.
What is the Quantified Self?
500
This app allows you to import your PowerPoint presentations into a slide show, add slides on the fly, markup slides with drawing and text and even record your lectures. (It does just about everything!)
What is ExplainEverything?
500
Matt Damon leads the fight against a deadly virus that struck his wife, played by Gwyneth Paltrow in this thriller.
What is Contagion?
500
This is a metaphor for a job or endeavor that can fulfill one's sense of mission and ambition.
What is a Passion Bucket?