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What is Microsoft Word
This popular computer software allows users to use a built-in spell checker, a thesaurus, a dictionary, and utilities for manipulating and editing text.
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What is a computer
In 2009, 97 percent of teachers had one or more of these located in the classroom every day.
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What is using a calculator or spell check
This is an example of using external power
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What is Microsoft Word
This popular computer software allows users to use a built-in spell checker, a thesaurus, a dictionary, and utilities for manipulating and editing text.
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What is AOL
This is the email service Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan meet on in the classic movie, "You've Got Mail!"
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What is Yahoo!
This once popular search engine and email service was founded in 2000.
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What is 100%
This percent is how many computers are in schools in the United States.
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What is knowledge
Access to information is not equivalent to learning and...?
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What is efficiency
Computers are not a cure for education, but do assist with...
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What is technological literacy
This kind of literacy is vital for the future.
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What is Binary
This is the universal computer language.
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What is broadband.
97 percent of computers in schools have this kind of internet access.
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What is a gap
This problem occurs when not all school districts can afford the newest technology.
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What is Computer Assisted Instruction
These three words make up the term CAI.
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What is wood
The first computer mouse was made out of this natural, fibrous structural tissue.
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What is 1940-1945
The year(s) the first electronic digital computer was developed.
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What is 16:1
In 1970, the student-teacher ratio was 22:1, it was this ratio in 2001.
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What is efficiently and productively
Students should be taught how to use computers in these two ways.
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What is Immediate Feedback
This kind of feedback is enabled by CAI.
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What is Toy Story
This movie was the first full length computer generated feature film.
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What is Wireless fidelity
These two words stand for Wifi.
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What is 45 hours
This is how many hours a week a child spends looking at a screen.
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What is internal growth
This kind of growth is sacrificed in exchange for external power.
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What is 90%
This is the average percentage that computer programs agree with human scores in writing.
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Who is Steve Jobs
This computer CEO was one of the founders of Pixar
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