Technology for K-12

Digital inequalities result in which of the following education outcomes?

• Teachers are more technologically skilled than students.

• Students use technology less often outside of school than teachers.

• Schools with shorter class periods use technology less often than schools with longer class periods.

• Low-income and minority students lack access to the latest technologies.

Studies of technology use in the classrooms have found that; most teachers still use technology for traditional drill and practice learning activities.

• True

• False

Garage Band, Brushes, and Shadow Puppet are examples of what type of educational app?

• Productivity

• Creativity

• Information

• Entertainment

The ISTE Standards for Students urge teachers to emphasize which of the following practices?

• Greater use of tests to measure students' mastery of basic skills.

• More individual work by students to demonstrate their motivation for learning.

• Less teacher talk and more adult-student interaction and discussion.

• Less use of unreliable web-based information.

All of the following are metaphors for how students regard the Internet EXCEPT:

• Internet as virtual textbook and reference library.

• Internet as virtual study group.

• Internet as a virtual backpack, locker, and notebook.

• Internet as a less reliable information source than books or adults.

Maintaining student academic records with grade-keeping software is considered to be technology-based instructional practice.

• True

• False