Choose the best answers to complete the following sentences .
Read the passage and choose the best answer A, B, C or D to each question.
Electronic devices are becoming increasingly common in educational environments. The term most commonly used for such devices is "educational technology". This is not actually a new idea, as the rewritable wax tablets, often with lined surfaces to guide novice writers used in antiquity or the blackboard itself are both instances of technological innovations to support pedagogy.
There are many different ways in which electronic devices are used in education. For example, students in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields have been making extensive use of sophisticated calculators for many years (the abacus and slide rule were non-electronic predecessors to calculators).
In humanities as well as sciences, students use computers or equivalent devices to do research and write papers.
In all fields, courses are now likely to have websites, and many instructors use course management software such as Blackboard, to post information for students, record grades, set up online discussions, and check for plagiarism.
In lecture classes, many instructors project slides or notes on a screen and may even upload lecture notes so that students can review them. Some courses are hybrid, meaning that they have a strong online component, or are offered entirely online. Many courses taught in conventional lecture halls are streamed online, and may use devices such as clickers to become more interactive.
Any device (including tablets or cell phones) that instructors incorporate into a learning environment functions as educational technology.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.
Digital learning is replacing traditional educational methods more and more each day. With ___(42)___ rapidly classrooms are changing, ___(43)___ is best to forget methods you may remember from when you were in school and start thinking about newer teaching and learning techniques based ___(44)___ digital learning tools and technologies. The inclusion of digital learning in the classrooms can ___(45)___ from simply using tablets instead of paper ___(46)___ using elaborate software programs and equipment as opposed to the simple pen.
This could entail using sites, services, programs, teaching tools, and technologies like study aids built for at-home ___(47)___. Even social networks and communications platforms ___(48)___ be used to create and manage digital assignments and agendas. ___(49)___ of how much technology is integrated into the classroom, digital learning has come to ___(50)___ a crucial role in education. It empowers students by getting them to be more interested in learning and expanding their horizons.