If You Were Interested in Using Technology to Support a Social

question 27

Multiple Choice

If you were interested in using technology to support a social approach to teaching, you would be drawn to applications that lend themselves to

• A) helping individual students actively construct relationships and ideas.
• B) mastery of established facts.
• C) improving students' social skills.
• D) helping students negotiate ideas with one another.

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Definitions:

Myelinated Axons

Axons that are coated with myelin, a fatty substance that speeds up the transmission of nerve impulses, enhancing the efficiency of the nervous system.

Action Potentials

Electrical impulses that are the means by which information is transmitted along neurons and muscle cells.

All-Or-None

The All-Or-None principle is a rule stating that the strength of a response of a nerve or muscle fiber is not dependent on the strength of the stimulus; if the stimulus exceeds the threshold, a complete response is generated.

Non-Decremental Fashion

Describes a process that does not decrease or diminish in size, importance, or intensity over time or distance.