{"id":4521,"date":"2014-09-17T08:00:59","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T14:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=4521"},"modified":"2016-04-17T11:53:17","modified_gmt":"2016-04-17T17:53:17","slug":"the-becker-ed-tech-test-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2014\/09\/17\/the-becker-ed-tech-test-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"“The Becker Ed Tech Test”: Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

\"testThis is the second\u00a0and last\u00a0part of my response to the Audrey Test<\/a>\u00a0(see my previous post<\/a>).<\/p>\n

I’m calling it the Becker Ed Tech Test (BETT)<\/strong><\/span> because I already have the Becker Lazy Test (BLT)<\/strong>, which is something I developed some years ago as part of my 4-PEG game assessment<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Like Audrey’s Test, mine is longer than the Joel Test<\/a>. Note also that this is obviously not a comprehensive list, and being able to answer all of these questions can\u2019t guarantee that you are a well-rounded educational technologist.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a pretty good start though.<\/p>\n

So, can YOU pass the BETT?<\/p>\n

Today’s installment gets right to the heart of the matter: the actual\u00a0tech questions. Like yesterday’s, many of these don’t have somple right or wrong answers, but if you don’t know how to either:<\/p>\n

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  1. formulate a sensible answer to these questions, OR<\/li>\n
  2. know how to find one out,<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The I really think you should be careful about calling yourself an educational technologist – and don’t use the words “geek” or “nerd” to describe yourself. You are neither.<\/p>\n

    25 General Tech Questions<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. How does one move a website from one service provider to another?<\/li>\n
    2. How is information stored in the cloud?<\/li>\n
    3. How does a URL get resolved? (http:\/\/blog.lunatech.com\/2009\/02\/03\/what-every-web-developer-must-know-about-url-encoding<\/a>)<\/li>\n
    4. In what ways is it a challenge to create content for the web that will function correctly on all browsers and mobile devices?<\/li>\n
    5. How do multi-player games work? (http:\/\/gafferongames.com\/networking-for-game-programmers\/what-every-programmer-needs-to-know-about-game-networking\/<\/a>)<\/li>\n
    6. Do you know enough about HTML, CSS, PHP, and Javascript that you can edit a web page at the code level?<\/li>\n
    7. What is the difference between iteration and recursion? (Warning: this is a tricky one. Many of the people I\u2019ve talked to in Ed Tech who claimed to know the difference were wrong.)<\/li>\n
    8. What is a structured walkthrough?<\/li>\n
    9. Name three programming paradigms other than object orientation.<\/li>\n
    10. What was the original purpose for the language Pascal?<\/li>\n
    11. How are computer games different from computer simulations?<\/li>\n
    12. What\u2019s the difference between Java and Javascript?<\/li>\n
    13. What is the most expensive part of a computer game with respect to computer resources?<\/li>\n
    14. What\u2019s the difference between an application and a program?<\/li>\n
    15. Why is the ASCII table organized the way it is? How is UNICODE different from ASCII?<\/li>\n
    16. How are dates represented inside the computer? What does this have to do with the Y2K problem?<\/li>\n
    17. How are real and integer numbers represented?<\/li>\n
    18. How does the floating point number format affect numeric accuracy? What is the rounding error?<\/li>\n
    19. What are strings and how do they differ from integers and reals?<\/li>\n
    20. What kind of information is stored in the header of a graphics file?<\/li>\n
    21. What distinguishes lossy from lossless compression?<\/li>\n
    22. What is a state machine?<\/li>\n
    23. How is a meta-language related to programming languages?<\/li>\n
    24. What\u2019s the difference between Java and Javascript?<\/li>\n
    25. What\u2019s the difference between a relative and absolute address?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Clearly there are many additional questions that are also important. Have any you think should be added?<\/p>\n

      Let me know!<\/p>\n

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