SEDU 183 - Test 2 Flashcards
(187 cards)
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Computer software can be divided into three major categories: administrative, operational, and academic.
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False
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Administrative software assists an educator in accomplishing the administrative, professional, and management tasks associated with the profession.
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True
3
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A wise approach for educators to take in selecting academic software is identifying reliable software evaluators to recommend the software that should be purchased.
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False
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The process of evaluating and making effective use of software yourself is a time consuming one because it involves evaluation, acquisition, installation, and training.
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True
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There are three main types of administrative software: productivity, management support, and business application.
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False
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It is helpful to use rubrics that give you specific tasks to accomplish when reviewing software to judge its usefulness.
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True
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Office productivity software that has helped to increase efficiency in the business workplace may also be helpful in the school office environment.
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True
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Productivity software can be purchased as individual programs or several programs incorporated together into an application suite.
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True
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Freeware does not have to be paid for until you have tried it out and decided that it will work for you.
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False
10
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A rubric helps to bring objectivity to an evaluation task.
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True
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The most commonly used computer application is word processing.
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True
12
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Electronic spreadsheets generally have the capability to check grammar and spelling.
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False
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When you highlight a block of text and then press the right mouse button, the highlighted material will be cut.
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False
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Electronic spreadsheet software is to numeric data what word processing software is to text.
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True
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A significant feature of database management software is the ability to locate a single piece of data from thousands of items in a database.
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True
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Productivity software is typically business software that has been adapted for an educator’s administrative and professional tasks.
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True
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In word processing, templates allow the user to easily archive and print classroom documents.
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False
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Electronic spreadsheet software is useful in helping students to gather, organize, sort, and look for targeted data.
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False
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Classroom management support software packages often contain a word processor, a desktop publisher, and an electronic spreadsheet.
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False
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In using a word processor, it is possible to command the software to check both the grammar and spelling in a document you have created.
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True
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Clip art includes ready-made graphics stored in an electronic library for user by the components of a productivity software suite.
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True
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In using a spreadsheet, data are stored in cells that can be used in formulas and altered for what-if analyses.
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True
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Charting in spreadsheets creates and displays visual representations of selected data.
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True
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Database management software collects and organizes data that can then be queried, sorted, and reported on.
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True
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In creating a presentation using presentation software, slides are typically fixed in design, animation, and sequence, but you can change the data.
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False
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In preparing a lecture, the productivity software that is most likely to be useful is a spreadsheet.
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False
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At the district level, management support software typically collects attendance data and grades and generates and tracks budget and financial information.
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True
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Careful evaluation of productivity software is critical because of the direct and indirect costs of its acquisition and implementation.
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True
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While useful for display, presentation software is limited in the types and styles of print materials that can be generated from slides.
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False
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Productivity software is actually generic:
Business application software.
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Which of the following is NOT one of the four major types of productivity software found in most school and business environments?
Electronic whiteboards.
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A license from a software company that lets the software be used legally on all of the computers at the organization's location is known as a
Site license
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Software that you can request or download and try out without charge, paying a usually small fee only if you decide you like the software, is known as
Shareware
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Modern word processing software can
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All of the above
(Edit documents and graphics,
Develop web pages,
Create documents
Create graphics)
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Which of these is NOT one of the three main features of a word processor?
Autoformatting.
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The ability to find a desired piece or pieces of data from a database that holds thousands of pieces of information is known as
A query.
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In addition to organizing numeric information, spreadsheet software can manipulate numeric data easily because the software has built-in
Formulas
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One of the great advantages of an electronic spreadsheet is that you can relate cells to each other so that changing data in one cell will make changes
in all cells that are related to each other.
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Syllabi, class outlines, and discipline reports are practical applications of
Word processing packages.
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A category of one kind of information in a database program, such as lock number assignments, is a
Field
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Information about just one item or person, such as the name, address, telephone number, and parents' names of one student in a database program is a
Record
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One of the key advantages of electronic spreadsheets over their manual counterpart is
Their accuracy
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An intriguing feature of spreadsheets is their unique ability to help forecast the results of changing conditions, such as developing a budget. This feature is known as
What-if analysis
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The advantages enjoyed by database management systems (DBMS) over manual systems are best exemplified by
electronic card catalogs
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The word processing feature that is a mini-program to create customized documents is a
Wizard
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The type of software that uses fields, records, and files to organize and display data is
Database management software.
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The administrative software that may include hypermedia features that allow the user to link and jump to other documents is
A presentation software package.
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The difference between freeware and shareware is that
freeware is offered without charge, while shareware must be paid for after being tried.
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The software that is typically included in a productivity package is
word processing, spreadsheet, database management, and presentation.
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In terms of document preparation and editing in a word processor, the software provides the capability to
format and enhance text as well as check spelling.
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When database management is applied to teaching and learning tasks, the software assists students in
learning to categorize or demonstrate logic when creating a query.
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Included in academic software are programs that help the teacher to teach and the learner to learn.
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True
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Multimedia systems developed by a teacher using an authoring system can be use din large and small groups, with individuals for review and reinforcement, or to study a missed lesson.
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True
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The term "clip art" comes from the days of manual page layout using scissors and paste.
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True
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Many clip art images are available on the Internet free of charge.
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True
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Unfortunately, when you input a clip art image, you have to use it the way it is because you usually cannot manipulate it.
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False
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B.F. Skinner is associated with problem-solving software.
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False
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Reference software is the kind of software Joe Kim will use to find biographical information on First Ladies for his research project on the topic "First Ladies in the White House and Afterward."
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True
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Lt. Col. Roddy Arnheim, a flight instructor for the Junior ROTC at Brooks High school, should use tutorial software to put the students into a virtual cockpit to prepare them for their private pilot's rating.
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False
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Software that has an audio component to convey text that appears on the monitor to students with hearing disabilities is backup software.
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False
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A networked management system that features standards, frameworks, and tests incorporated into a curriculum, as well as progress tracking and reporting, is referred to as an integrated learning system.
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True
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Computers tend to freeze up when they are forced to repeat information for a learner many, many times.
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False
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Draw programs let the user create and manipulate digital pictures with electronic pens and brushes and even spraypaint can tools.
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False
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Using a paint program, you can modify or print individual pieces of artwork.
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True
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Desktop publishing software enables teachers to create complex illustrations and graphic images.
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False
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When creating their own multimedia tutorials for students, teachers generally use authoring software.
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True
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Academic software includes the software that can be used to enrich the teaching and learning environment for both teachers and students.
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True
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Draw programs use tools that simulate drawing and painting tools to create images.
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False
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In education, reference software is useful because it can provide internet search engines to find targeted data.
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False
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While tutorials present new material, drill-and-practice software is designed to reinforce previously learned content.
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True
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Educational games, because of their entertainment value, have little application in a classroom.
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False
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Hardware and software combinations designed to assist students in learning target objectives are referred to as integrated learning systems.
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True
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Concept mapping software helps students to visually organize ideas and their relationships.
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True
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The advantage of problem-solving software is that it addresses the needs of students who have a physical or learning disability.
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False
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The cost of academic software includes both its acquisition cost and the time necessary to install, support, and learn to use it.
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True
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Hypermedia not only uses multimedia but also organizes information so that students can access it in a nonlinear fashion.
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True
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Web authoring software assists teachers and students in the creation of pages designed for use on the World Wide Web.
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True
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Two applications of desktop publishing software are the creation of custom transparencies and class newsletters.
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True
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When a teachers uses a software authoring program to create a unique lesson and the resulting hypermedia program is stored in HTML, the tool used was probably
A Web authoring system.
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Educators can create sophisticated documents, certificates, flash cards, letters, field trip reports, and so on using
Desktop publishing software.
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Software that includes clip art libraries and enables the user to draw, paint, and manipulate objects is known as
Graphics software.
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Which of the following is NOT one of the three categories of graphics software?
Multimedia software.
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The three functions of graphics software are
creating, editing, and enhancing.
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Using the DVC online site to research learning styles, Mrs. McCarthy sees bold, underlined topics in the text. By clicking on "Learning Styles Survey" as she reads through the text, she can skip to a survey to find out her own and her students' dominant learning styles; then, with another click, she can return to the home page. This "skipping" between interactive pages is made possible by
hyperlinks.
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Bertha Simon, who teaches computer classes at Backus High School, has been asked by her principal to make a large banner welcoming the football teach back after they have won the state championship. She uses this kind of software:
Desktop publishing.
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By storyboarding a lesson built with hypermedia authoring software, you can create
multimedia software.
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Ms. Axelrod considers her ninth-grade Spanish class to be unique in their needs and levels of performance. She has found no commercial software that correlates with her curriculum, so she is using:
authoring systems software.
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To create a document with graphics, video, and sound to link with other documents is to use
hypermedia.
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When you purchase a scanner, it will probably come with
imaging software.
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Software that lets the user "melt" one image into another has the special effect known as
morphing.
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Predesigned graphic elements that can be inserted in student handouts, flyers, or posters are called
clip art.
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Software that provides students the opportunity to interact with model environments and promote discovery learning is
simulations
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When selecting an authoring system, a teacher should consider
ease of use and capabilities.
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When creating a hypermedia lesson, a teacher typically
plans the sequence of instructional screens and then uses authoring tools to create software that follows that sequence.
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The type of software that is typically used to create, edit, and enhance digital images is
graphics software.
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Software that presents new material using text and multimedia and may include built in management components is
tutorial software
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Speech synthesizers and screen readers are examples of
special needs software.
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Problem-solving software is a class of academic software in which students
can acquire skills in and practice forming and testing hypotheses and solutions.
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When acquiring academic software, the teacher's primary role is to
evaluate and identify appropriate software for classroom instruction.
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Students with exceptionalities include students with disabilities but not students who are gifted.
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False
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Technology may be able to provide access to the standard curriculum for some students with disabilities.
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True
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Dysgraphia is a disability of students who are unable to decipher displayed visuals or graphics.
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False
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Concept mapping software can help students capture ideas during brainstorming and organize them.
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True
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Word prediction software can plug words into a document without the student's having to choose the desired word from a list of possible choices.
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False
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Custom dictionaries help students who are of a particular ethnic group.
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False
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High-interest low-level books are appropriate for students who have mastered the skills to read at their grade level but for whom the standard texts are not stimulating enough.
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False
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Assistive listening devices are a great breakthrough to help teachers hear students who have difficulty speaking clearly.
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False
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Alternative and augmentative communication devices give a voice to people who cannot speak.
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True
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A touch screen is a computer monitor screen that responds to human touch.
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True
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Educational technology can offer valuable support for meeting the instructional needs of gifted students.
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True
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Gifted students need differentiated instruction to address their unique needs for challenge and engagement.
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True
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English language learning (ELL) students are sometimes referred to as limited English proficient (LEP) students.
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True
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LEP standards for "low English potential" students.
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False
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CLD stands for "culturally and linguistically diverse."
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True
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Educational technology is often overutilized for providing comprehensible input to CLD students.
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False
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Limited English proficient (LEP) students are one of the most rapidly growing student populations in K-12 schools.
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True
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Universal Design for Learning (UDL) offers a set of parameters that focuses solely on meeting the learning needs of students with disabilities.
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False
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Culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students include English language learning students.
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True
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Screen readers can support students who have no usable vision or who get fatigued from using screen magnification.
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True
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Which of the following are supported by educational technology?
All of the above
(supporting participation and independence;
achieving content area goals;
writing)
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Scaffolding is defined as
taking students from their individual baseline and moving them beyond it.
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Concept mapping
supports idea formation as well as each step of the writing process.
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Word prediction software
makes a guess about the next word to type.
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Which of the following is not a reading support tool?
OCR software.
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Which is a communications tool?
Assistive listening devices.
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Which is not an input support device?
Jump drives.
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Which is an assistive output device?
Touch screen monitor.
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Which do gifted students need?
Differentiated instruction.
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One of the most rapidly growing student segments is
English language learning students.
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TESOL stands for
Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages.
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CLD stands for students who
are culturally and linguistically diverse.
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Students with special needs and students with exceptionalities are not
average, typical.
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word processing software can assist students who
all of the above
(have difficulty holding a pencil;
lack fine motor coordination;
suffer from dysgraphia.)
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For which skills area might special needs students not find technology support?
Filming.
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When requesting a computer for classroom use, you need to be sure to specify all of the peripherals you want to acquire with the computer because they cannot be added later.
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False
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You can add output devices to your computer so that the entire class can see what you see on your screen.
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True
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Digitizers used by art students and similar professionals have special capabilities such as special colors, brush sizes and types, and special effects.
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True
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You can translate a drawing or page of text into computer data directly by using a laser drawing pen.
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False
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When text is scanned into a computer and converted so that it can be modified in a word processor, the software used is known as OCR.
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True
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The least expensive method to display a computer image is a flat-bed scanner.
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False
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It is faster and easier to get a picture into your computer by using a digital camera instead of a regular camera and a scanner.
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True
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You can take more pictures with a digital camera in high resolution than in low resolution.
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False
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Pictures taken with a digital camera can be printed on a regular computer color printer.
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True
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You can draw digital images freehand if you use a regular whiteboard and special color pens.
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False
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Handheld computers use abbreviated versions of the most popular types of software.
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True
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Material written or drawn on an electronic whiteboard or a SMART Board can be saved to your computer.
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True
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A scanner is used to convert a drawing, page of text, or photo to digital data.
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True
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Digital cameras require special types of film and photo processing.
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False
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A primary use of agraphics tablet is to create complex drawings that would be difficult to accomplish by using a mouse.
T/F
True
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Ports on a computer are the points of connection between the computer and peripheral devices.
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True
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Personal digital assistants (PDAs) typically use trackballs as their input devices.
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False
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An electronic whiteboard is useful for in the classroom because whatever is written on it can be captured into a digital file.
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True
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Scan converters let you turn digital video into still pictures.
T/F
False
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One of the key advantages of wireless devices to the flexibility they provide learners for engaging in activities outside of the classroom.
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True
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A tablet PC merges the flexibility of a memo pad with the power of a computer.
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True
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Voice technology enables computers to accept voice commands.
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True
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Virtual environments are those that are created and accessed via the Internet.
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False
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LCD data projectors typically need to be used with overhead projectors to display computer images.
T/F
False
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For prereaders, a touch screen is a useful instructional device for input.
T/F
True
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An electronic whiteboard is considered to be an input device to a computer.
T/F
True
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The higher the dpi of a scanner, the higher will be the quality of the captured image.
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True
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Recently, scanners have begun connecting through the parallel port, permitting faster communication.
T/F
False
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Most LCD projectors today will project images from
C and D
(computers;
VCRs/DVD players)
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An advantage of digital-to-analog converters is
low cost.
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In the self-paced remediation lab at the middle school where you are teaching, the students are working with multimedia skills reinforcement software. For the auditory components of the programs in this setting, the peripherals of choice are
headphones.
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Wireless microwave technology is used in
A, B and C
| beepers, cell phones, and laptops with wireless cards.
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As computer power increases, the size of the computer system tends to decrease. This is exemplified by palm-sized computers known as
smartphones.
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Overhead projector platforms are used with
LCD Panels
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Catching students up on missed class work is a perennial problem at all levels and grades of instruction. for information that is presented visually, one solution is to present the material as usual by writing on a display surface but also to store the information for later retrieval. This display surface is known as
An electronic whiteboard.
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To view a photographic image taken on a digital camera, you usually first use a
built-in LCD screen.
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It looks like a pen but is used to draw on an electronic pad, not paper. It is called
A stylus
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Electronic tablets that display stored digital text, page by page, are known as
Electronic books
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We anticipate that the next technology revolution will be
Voice input technology
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As the capacity of storage devices has increased, the size of the devices has tended to
decrease
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Using a headpiece and glove and other related hardware and software that enable you to interact with a three-dimensional world is known as
virtual reality
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Digital cameras typically store images on
memory or "smart" cards
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In the classroom, PDAs can be used as
A classroom management tool.
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The inexpensive device that lets teachers display computer images using a standard television monitor is a
scan converter
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In the classroom, the advantage of headphones over speakers is that
using headphones does not disturb other students' work.
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Emerging technologies in education are those that
have only begun to be used in schools.
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E-books allow students to
view and take notes on digital versions of books.
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To capture a digital image of a page of a reference book, it is best to use a
flat-bed scanner.
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After photo images have been transferred from a digital camera to the hard drive, the images in the camera
may be deleted if you wish.
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Although any photographic image can be enlarged, when selecting a digital camera that will provide images with sufficient resolution to make high-quality 8x10 prints, you should seek a camera with at least how many megapixels of resolution?
4
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To get intant feedback for assessment, such as physical education fitness, a music lab activity, or reading competency, students have been shown how to use
handheld computers or PDAs
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A relatively new, wireless device that can enable students to take and organize notes in a word-processed format without having to type them out, then download and read eBooks, all without the use of a desktop or laptap is
a tablet PC
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One of the newer wireless technologies, which uses radio frequencies to connect computers and other devices to wire network at fairly high speeds, is known as
WiFi
