The teachers are concerned that their lack of experience with video conferencing will hinder their ability to
achieve the planned lesson.
What advice should you provide to the teachers to help them achieve the planned lesson?
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A. Tell them that video conferencing is a simple process and not to worry.
B. Start by using technology that they are most familiar with.
C. Teach students the benefits of video conferencing before the lesson.
D. Test the video conferencing equipment before the lesson.
How does giving each student their own laptop enhance collaborative learning?
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A. The students can digitally share their work and their ideas.
B. The students can connect with their peers outside of the classroom without being interrupted by the teachers.
C. The students will feel free to exchange their views with one another anonymously during lessons.
D. The students can work together without any guidance from a teacher.
You create your first lesson that incorporates the use of the students' laptops.
You want to evaluate the effectiveness of the use of laptops during the lesson.
How do you determine effectiveness after one lesson?
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A. Students actively engage in the lesson.
B. Students are able to access curriculum content.
C. Student scores improve on a test given at the end of the lesson.
D. Students give feedback that they enjoyed using laptops during the lesson.
You want to motivatethe school to invest in ICT resources. The reason must be based on the ICT
Competency Framework for Teachers (ICT-CFT).
Which argument should you use?
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A. to become the best equipped school in your region.
B. to improve local economic conditions.
C. to give the students in your school access to a range of resources and learning experiences.
D. to meet the expectations of the students and the parents.
You want the students to collect information from organizations that they find on the Internet.
Which instructions or advice should you provide to the students?
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A. Have the information sent to the student's home e-mail address.
B. Only request information from organizations that have a secure Web site.
C. Have the information sent to the school's e-mail address.
D. Only request information from organizations that have a Web site that requires registration.
Your class just completed the video-conference with the farmer.
You want to do a quick assessment to identify how many students understood the key points of the video-
conference.
What should you do?
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A. Have the students use the student response system.
B. Have the students work in pairs to create a blog.
C. Have each student write an essay by using a word processing application.
D. Have each student design a presentation.
You teach an economics lesson about the effects of using price discount strategies.
During the class, you provide detailed sales statistics from a major national retailer.
Some of the students question the effectiveness of price discount strategies.
You want to demonstrate to the students that the strategies are cost-effective.
What should you do?
A. Search the Internet for Web sites that contain more information about retail pricing strategies.
B. Enter sample sales figures into a spreadsheet to model the effects of using price discountstrategies.
C. Search the Internet for teaching resources on retail pricing strategies.
D. Email several retail management experts and ask them for examples of how they use price discountstrategies.
You want your students to analyze the costs of running a business.
You plan a visit with your students to a business center that sells business services.
The business center offers the following services.
Printing
Photocopying
Web site design
Document scanning
Word processing and editing.
What should you include as part of your classroom activities?
A. Give an assignment during which the students will read three case studies about office service businesses. Summarize the students' findings in a word processing document.
B. Run a research project during which the students will use the Internet to compile a list of prices of various business services.
C. Run a three-day project during which the students will set up their own office service business at the school and sell business services to the students and the staff.
D. Run a two-hour project during which you will provide reference information on the cost of equipment, materials, and salaries. Guide the students to use spreadsheets to calculate the costs of a business.
You want to track and manage student's performance data.
Which type of application should you use?
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A. desktop publishing
B. presentation
C. spreadsheet
D. word processing
You teachpolitical science to a class of 20 students. The students are 17 years old. Your school has a computer lab that has access to the Internet.
Your government has an election.
You create a lesson that requires the students to spend the entire day of the election analyzing the
election results as they are announced.
You reserve the computer lab for the activity.
You want to ensure that the students can continuously record the election results. The solution must also
ensure that the students seethechanges to the political map as the resultscome in.
What should you do?
A. Have the students input the election results to a spreadsheet application and create charts to present the results.
B. Have the students use a word processing application to create a table that presents the election results.
C. Have the students use a spreadsheet application to build a model presenting the election results.
D. Have the students use a spreadsheet application to import charts from the political parties'Web sites, and then export the charts to a presentation.