Chapter 46 Study guide
Chapter 4
TRUE/FALSE.
Write “T” if the statement is true and “F” if the statement is false.
1. Students with exceptionalities include students with disabilities but not students who
are gifted.
2. Technology may be able to provide access to the standard curriculum for some
students with disabilities.
3. Dysgraphia is a disability of students who are unable to decipher displayed visuals or
graphics.
4. Concept mapping software can help students capture ideas during brainstorming and
organize them.
5. 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.
6. Custom dictionaries help students who are of a particular ethnic group.
7. 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.
8. Assistive listening devices are a great breakthrough to help teachers hear students who
have difficulty speaking clearly.
9. Alternative and augmentative communication devices give a voice to people who
cannot speak.
10. A touch screen is a computer monitor screen that responds to human touch.
11. Educational technology can offer valuable support for meeting the instructional needs
of gifted students.
12. Gifted students need differentiated instruction to address their unique needs for
challenge and engagement.
13. English language learning (ELL) students are sometimes referred to as limited
English proficient (LEP) students.
14. LEP stands for “low English potential” students.
15. CLD stands for “culturally and linguistically diverse.”
16. Educational technology is often overutilized for providing comprehensible input to
CLD students.
17. Limited English proficient (LEP) students are one of the most rapidly growing
student populations in K–12 schools.
18. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) offers a set of parameters that focuses solely on meeting the learning needs of students with disabilities.
19. Culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students include English language
learning students.
20. Screen readers can support students who have no usable vision or who get fatigued
from using screen magnification.
MULTIPLE CHOICE
Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the
question.
1. Which of the following are supported by educational technology?
A) Supporting participation and independence.
B) Achieving content area goals.
C) Writing.
D) All of the above.
E) None of the above.
2. Scaffolding is defined as
A) adding an increasing degree of difficulty as students achieve a series of goals.
B) moving students through a curriculum.
C) taking students from their individual baseline and moving them beyond it.
D) none of the above.
3. Concept mapping
A) is used after brainstorming to implement ideas.
B) is beneficial to gifted students but not to disabled ones.
C) allows brainstorming in outline mode but not in diagram mode.
D) supports idea formation as well as each step of the writing process.
4. Word prediction software
A) is primarily beneficial to gifted students.
B) makes a guess about the next word to type.
C) chooses which application to open on the basis of previous choices.
D) does not include custom dictionaries.
5. Which of the following is not a reading support tool?
A) OCR software.
B) Scan/read systems.
C) High-interest low-level books.
D) Recorded books.
6. Which is a communications tool?
A) Surround-sound systems.
B) Assistive listening devices.
C) Noise-canceling headphones.
D) High-definition audio.
7. Which is not an input support device?
A) Keyboard labels.
B) Keyguards.
C) Pointing devices.
D) Jump drives.
8. Which is an assistive output device?
A) Touch screen monitor.
B) Bluetooth.
C) Scanner.
D) Mac OS.
9. Which do gifted students need?
A) Multilingual instruction.
B) Internet-based instruction.
C) Differentiated instruction.
D) Narrow focus instruction.
10. One of the most rapidly growing student segments is
A) English language learning students.
B) Spanish language learning students.
C) Latino language learning students.
D) Portuguese language learning students.
11. TESOL stands for
A) The English and Science Organization Laboratory.
B) Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages.
C) The Educators of Science or Languages.
D) Teachers and Educators of Spanish and Other Languages.
12. CLD stands for students who
A) need communications and language development.
B) are communications and language disabled.
C) are clinically and legally depressed.
D) are culturally and linguistically diverse.
13. Students with special needs and students with exceptionalities are not
A) unable to write.
B) blind.
C) average, typical.
D) gifted.
14. Word processing software can assist students who
A) have difficulty holding a pencil.
B) lack fine motor coordination.
C) suffer from dysgraphia.
D) all of the above.
15. For which skills area might special needs students not find technology support?
A) Filming.
B) Reading.
C) Computer use.
D) Writing.
SHORT ANSWER.
Write the word or phrase that best completes each statement or answers the
question.
1. What do students with disabilities and gifted students have in common?
2. List four features that word processing software programs offer to support special
needs.
3. What is the difference between recorded books and high-interest low-level books?
4. What support device would you recommend for a student who has difficulty hearing a
teacher in the classroom?
5. What is the difference between StickyKeys and MouseKeys?
6. What is a pointing device, and how does it work?
7. Whom can a screen reader help and how?
8. What is assistive technology?
9. How can educational technology help gifted students?
10. What is differentiated instruction?
Chapter 6
TRUE/FALSE.
Write “T” if the statement is true and “F” if the statement is false.
1. 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.
2. You can add output devices to your computer so that the entire class can see what you see on your screen.
3. Digitizers used by art students and similar professionals have special capabilities such
as special colors, brush sizes and types, and special effects.
4. You can translate a drawing or page of text into computer data directly by using a laser drawing pen.
5. 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.
6. The least expensive method to display a computer image is a flat-bed scanner.
7. 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.
8. You can take more pictures with a digital camera in high resolution than in low resolution.
9. Pictures taken with a digital camera can be printed on a regular computer color printer.
10. You can draw digital images freehand if you use a regular whiteboard and special color pens.
11. Handheld computers use abbreviated versions of the most popular types of software.
12. Material written or drawn on an electronic whiteboard or a SMART Board can be saved to your computer.
13. A scanner is used to convert a drawing, page of text, or photo to digital data.
14. Digital cameras require special types of film and photo processing.
15. A primary use of a graphics tablet is to create complex drawings that would be
difficult to accomplish by using a mouse.
16. Ports on a computer are the points of connection between the computer and peripheral devices.
17. Personal digital assistants (PDAs) typically use trackballs as their input devices.
18. An electronic whiteboard is useful for in the classroom because whatever is written
on it can be captured into a digital file.
19. Scan converters let you turn digital video into still pictures.
20. One of the key advantages of wireless devices is the flexibility they provide learners
for engaging in activities outside of the classroom.
21. A tablet PC merges the flexibility of a memo pad with the power of a computer.
22. Voice technology enables computers to accept voice commands.
23. Virtual environments are those that are created and accessed via the Internet.
24. LCD data projectors typically need to be used with overhead projectors to display computer images.
25. For prereaders, a touch screen is a useful instructional device for input.
26. An electronic whiteboard is considered to be an input device to a computer.
27. The higher the dpi of a scanner, the higher will be the quality of the captured image.
28. Recently, scanners have begun connecting through the parallel port, permitting faster communication.
MULTIPLE CHOICE.
Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. Most LCD projectors today will project images from
A) TVs.
B) monitors.
C) computers.
D) VCRs/DVD players.
E) C and D.
2. An advantage of digital-to-analog converters is
A) low cost.
B) high resolution.
C) extreme clarity.
D) size of the image.
E) A and D.
3. 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
component of the programs in this setting, the peripherals of choice are
A) speakers.
B) laser printers.
C) microphones.
D) headphones.
4. Wireless microwave technology is used in
A) beepers.
B) cell phones.
C) laptops with wireless cards.
D) LCD projectors.
E) A, B, and C.
5. As computer power increases, the size of the computer system tends to decrease. This
is exemplified by palm-sized computers known as
A) minibooks.
B) smartphones.
C) netbooks.
D) laptops.
E) Kindles.
6. Overhead projector platforms are used with
A) LCD panels.
B) LCD projectors.
C) electronic whiteboards.
D) graphics tablets.
7. 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
A) a scanner.
B) a handheld computer.
C) an electronic whiteboard.
D) a printer.
8. To view a photographic image taken on a digital camera, you usually first use a
A) color ink jet printer.
B) scan converter.
C) TV monitor.
D) built-in LCD screen.
9. It looks like a pen but is used to draw on an electronic pad, not paper. It is called
A) a stylus.
B) an LCD display.
C) a joystick.
D) a laser pointer.
10. Electronic tablets that display stored digital text, page by page, are known as
A) LCD displays.
B) graphics tablets.
C) electronic books.
D) LCD screens.
11. We anticipate that the next technology revolution will be
A) virtual reality.
B) wireless computers.
C) voice input technology.
D) 3-D images.
12. As the capacity of storage devices has increased, the size of the devices has tended to
A) stay the same.
B) decrease.
C) vary.
D) increase.
13. Using a headpiece and glove and other related hardware and software that enable you
to interact with a three-dimensional world is known as
A) artificial intelligence.
B) avatar.
C) virtual reality.
D) 3-D.
14. Digital cameras typically store images on
A) high-speed film.
B) memory or “smart” cards.
C) videotape.
D) Zip disks.
15. In the classroom, PDAs can be used as
A) a scanner.
B) a classroom management tool.
C) an LCD display.
D) a video capture device.
16. The inexpensive device that lets teachers display computer images using a standard
television monitor is a
A) projection panel.
B) LCD projector.
C) touch screen.
D) scan converter.
17. In the classroom, the advantage of headphones over speakers is that
A) headphones allow multiple students to hear the same output.
B) using headphones does not disturb other students’ work.
C) headphones have more clarity than speakers.
D) headphones are not as easily broken or lost.
18. Emerging technologies in education are those that
A) have been used in schools for less than ten years.
B) have only begun to be used in schools.
C) are not suitable for use in the classroom.
D) have been designated too expensive for most districts.
19. E-books allow students to
A) take tests and complete writing assignments via a school network.
B) view and take notes on digital versions of books.
C) keep a personal journal in a digital format.
D) track their grades via personal gradebook software.
20. To capture a digital image of a page of a reference book, it is best to use a
A) flat-bed scanner.
B) multifunction device.
C) digital camera.
D) page scanner.
21. After photo images have been transferred from a digital camera to the hard drive, the
images in the camera
A) lose significant quality.
B) may be deleted if you wish.
C) can no longer be viewed.
D) are left in the camera, but they can be recorded over.
22. Although any photographic image can be enlarged, when selecting a digital camera
that will provide images with sufficient resolution to make high-quality 8 × 10 prints, you
should seek a camera with at least how many megapixels of resolution?
A) 5
B) 3
C) 4
D) 2
23. To get instant feedback for assessment, such as physical education fitness, a music
lab activity, or reading competency, students have been shown how to use
A) scanners or punch cards.
B) handheld computers or PDAs.
C) desktop or laptop computers.
D) webcams or digital cameras.
24. 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 laptop is
A) an LCD projector.
B) voice recognition software.
C) a tablet PC.
D) a webcam.
25. One of the newer wireless technologies, which uses radio frequencies to connect
computers and other devices to wired network at fairly high speeds, is known as
A) HiFi.
B) wireless technology.
C) WiFi.
D) FiWide.
SHORT ANSWER.
Write the word or phrase that best completes each statement or answers the
question.
1. What is the purpose of an output device? Give an example of how it can be used to
implement an assignment.
2. What is the purpose of an input device? How can it be used for instruction in a lesson
plan you will be teaching?
3. You will have your students prepare electronic project portfolios to demonstrate
achievement in your class. Giving specific examples, tell how you will have them use a
scanner to create their portfolios.
4. You are the advisor for the high school yearbook and want to do something extra to
supplement the traditional hard copy yearbook. Explain to the principal how you will use
a digital camera to create an electronic yearbook.
5. How could virtual reality be used in your classroom if it were perfected today?
6. What is the difference between a tablet PC and a graphics tablet?
7. What type of equipment is currently needed to participate in a virtual environment?
8. What are the key advantages of a digital camera over a film camera?
9. When we make PDA technology considerably larger and more powerful, what kind of
PC do we have?