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Ross, Jen; Curwood, Jen Scott; Bell, Amani – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2020
Higher education institutions increasingly expect students to work effectively and critically with multiple modes, semiotic resources and digital tools. However, assessment practices are often insufficient to capture how multimodal artefacts represent disciplinary knowledge in complex ways. This study explores and theorises the design and…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Learning Modalities, Educational Technology
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Lovell, Judith – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2015
The role of artistry in transformative maintenance of law and custom is a theme widely researched and discussed in Aboriginal arts related literature. However, it is the aim of this paper to contribute to a wider discourse about learning and economic participation in remote Australia, and in particular the role of multimodality as a significant…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Cultural Background, Heritage Education
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Faulkner, Julie – English in Australia, 2012
This article explores disruption of habituated literacy practices through the creation of new possibilities in a digital space. Preservice English method teachers at a Melbourne university were invited to create a digital introduction and to reflect after the presentation on aspects of technology, representation and learning that were brought into…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Internet, Learning Modalities
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Exley, Beryl; Cottrell, Amber – English in Australia, 2012
The recently introduced "Australian Curriculum: English" (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), 2012) requires students to "read" multimodal text and describe the effects of structure and organisation. We begin this article by tracing the variable understandings of what reading multimodal text might…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intermode Differences, Learning Modalities, Multimedia Instruction
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Cumming, Joy; Kimber, Kay; Wyatt-Smith, Claire – English in Australia, 2012
This article examines synergies and gaps in the construction of English, literacy, multimodality in policy and curriculum in Australian education with a focus on current assessment practices and educational accountability in order to make recommendations for future practice for teachers and for policy-makers. The article builds on analyses of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Policy, Educational Policy, Literacy
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Russell, Jennifer; Beavis, Catherine – English in Australia, 2012
Contemporary curriculum guidelines, such as those provided in the incoming Australian curriculum, call for English to attend to multimodal forms of text and literacy as well as more traditional forms. Students are expected to become capable and critical readers, users and creators of texts and forms of literacy that span everything from newspapers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Guides, Learning Modalities, Multimedia Instruction
Percy, Andrew; Carr, Alistair – Australian Mathematics Teacher, 2010
The one theorem just about every student remembers from school is the theorem about the side lengths of a right angled triangle which Euclid attributed to Pythagoras when writing Proposition 47 of "The Elements". Usually first met in middle school, the student will be continually exposed throughout their mathematical education to the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geometric Concepts, Geometry, Mathematics Education
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Gill, Merri – Education in Rural Australia, 1996
A mother describes the troubles she and her daughter had with her daughter's education until Robert Owens gave a weekend workshop on values-based accelerated learning. Knowing that there are different learning styles that can be matched by appropriate teaching styles enabled her to understand her daughter's problems and develop strategies to help…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Learning Modalities