Computers in the Classroom
Terms
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copy deck
- learning how to type
- 50% of computer literacy
- program
- a set of instructions for computer circuits to perform in order to process data
- kernel
- set of programs that control all of the input and output and device communications in the machine
- International Business Machines (IBM)
- company got its start by creating a machine with gears, levers, and punched cards to count the 1890 census
- to organize
- purpose of folders in a graphical operating system
- RAM
- kind of storage that can only hold data until the power is turned off
- social, vocational, pedagogic, catalytic
- four rationales offered by education technologist to use computers in education
- Z
- undo
- v
- paste
- anti-aliasing
- name for the font effect that adds some extra shading to the edges of the letters
- data
- information a computer processes
- central processing unit (CPU)
- brain of a computer
- Catalytic
- BOGUS
- P
- play is learning
- basic idea for the term edutainment
- Administrative, Instructional, Research
- three main categories of educational computing tasks
- pointing, clicking, and dragging
- three basic computer mouse pointer skills
- taskbar
- name of the bar across the bottom of the Windows screen
- user interface
- a system that lets a person give commands to a system and see the status of a system
- tool
- computer is nothing more than a
- paint program
- kind of graphics program manipulates individual dots on an image
- dialogue
- windows uses for a programmer to ask you a question and get answers from you
- organize numerical information
- purpose of a spreadsheet program
- presentations
- what you make with microsoft powerpoint
- pixels
- individual dots
- clear communication
- primary goal of powerpoint
- N
- new
- mastery learning
- key concept behind teaching machines
- desktop publishing industry
- Apple Macintosh computer helped invent
- X
- cut
- O
- open
- utility programs
- programs that you use specifically to manage or maintain your computer
- 24pt font
- smallest font size you should use on a transparency
- microsoft draw
- kind of graphics program is built from graphic objects that can overlap
- virus
- program attaches itself to other programs causing your system to slow down or report private data to a thief or perhaps even damage the information on your system
- create text documents
- purpose of a word processor program
- extension
- part of a data file is used by Windows to link it to the correct computer program
- reinforcement
- best means for a computer to enhance learning
- c
- copy
- computer
- electronic machine used to store, process, and present information in meaningful ways
- pathname
- list of all the folders within folders within folders that gets to your file
- information management
- purpose of a database program
- commercial
- produced & sold by companies
- shareware
- "free to try; then you buy"
- input/output process
- basic model of computing the theoretical Turing Machine illustrated
- S
- save
- electricity
- the power source was critical to the development of the modern day computer
- abacus
- first computer used by man (as far as we know)
- portrait
- taller
- context menu
- appears when you click the right mouse button on most objects on a Windows screen
- file management system
- what you use to store and retrieve computer files on/off a disk or flashdrive
- input/output
- two key concepts Babbage's vision represented
- landscape
- wider
- graphical user interface
- GUI; icons, windows, menus, and a pointer made computers usable to the average person