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Direct linkSerafini, Frank – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2011
The texts that adolescents encounter today are often multimodal, meaning they incorporate a variety of modes, including visual images, hypertext, and graphic design elements along with written text. Expanding the perspectives readers use to make sense of the multimodal texts is an important aspect of comprehension instruction. Moving beyond the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Intermode Differences, Learning Modalities, Comprehension
Casey, Heather – Middle School Journal (J3), 2012
Multimodal learning clubs link principles of motivation and engagement with 21st century technological tools and texts to support content area learning. The author describes how a sixth grade health teacher and his class incorporated multimodal learning clubs into a unit of study on human body systems. The students worked collaboratively online…
Descriptors: Human Body, Clubs, Content Area Reading, Grade 6
Download full textTan Lee Wee, Lynde – New Horizons in Education, 2010
Background: In response to the changing demands of new times, media literacy has been incorporated into the current English Language Syllabus 2010 in Singapore. Although media literacy is mentioned in the syllabus, what this term means needs more clarification. What is clear from the current English Language Syllabus 2010 in Singapore is the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Media Literacy, Literacy Education, Secondary School Students
Stracco, Mike – English Journal, 2007
In a one-week voluntary summer course, students aged twelve to seventeen eagerly take ownership of their composing processes, learning to connect terms such as focus and point of view to the visual and verbal acts of photography and writing. High school teacher Mike Stracco grapples with how to channel the vitality of his summer course into…
Descriptors: Summer Schools, Photography, Writing Instruction, Student Participation
O'Hanlon, Charlene – T.H.E. Journal, 2007
According to a January 2007 survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, 55 percent of teens (ages 12 to 17) report having created a personal profile online, and an equal number regularly use social networking sites such as MySpace or Facebook. Of those, 91 percent use the sites to stay in touch with friends they see frequently. With all…
Descriptors: Internet, Social Networks, Adolescents, Student Motivation
Peer reviewedBain, Alan; Huss, Phillip; Kwong, Howard – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2000
Describes a study that evaluated a network-based hypertext discussion tool (HDT) for teaching literature to adolescents by investigating whether the incorporation of the HDT into students' homework routine raised achievement over traditional discussion and text-based homework. Considers student feedback and attitudes toward learning with the HDT.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks
