An instructional approach for conducting an inquiry-oriented activity using resources drawn from the Web,
originally created by Bernie Dodge and Tom March, is the
a) chat room
b) key pal
c) scavenger hunt
d) WebQuest
Ques. 2A collection of Web pages maintained by a school, university, government agency, company, or individual is
called a
a) home page
b) URL
c) website
d) web server
Ques. 3What is crucial for authentic learning?
What will be an ideal response?
Ques. 4What do the authors believe that many schools are emphasizing?
a. Problem-solving
b. Conceptual understanding
c. Test-taking
Ques. 5Facebook is a popular Web application for
a) communication
b) sharing photos and other materials with others
c) social networking
d) all of the above
Ques. 6About what percentage of U.S. students are estimated to have attention deficit disorder (ADD)?
A) 1 to 3
B) 3 to 5
C) 6 to 8
D) 10 to 12
Ques. 7The organizational pattern of basals shortchanges below-level readers because it __________.
A) provides less reading material on their level
B) features themes that have little appeal to struggling readers
C) lacks an adequate scope and sequence of skills
D) seriously underestimates their abilities
Ques. 8When student work, such as stories and project reports, is posted on a school website for others to see, this is an
example of the use of the Internet for
a) application platform
b) communication
c) information publishing
d) information retrieval
Ques. 9Writing for the web publication is different than writing for publication in print because
a. the resolution of a computer screen is much lower than that of printed documents.
b. reading long blocks of text on the web is much more tedious than pages of a book
c. Web readers like to scan information quickly.
d. a, b, and c are important differences in writing for the Web and writing for print