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Ryu, Minjung; Daniel, Shannon Mary – Asia-Pacific Science Education, 2021
Project RESET engaged resettled Chin refugee teens in critical STEM literacy practices in a community-based afterschool STEM enrichment program in the United States. Over the course of nine months, the participants multimodally and multilinguistically communicated their learning about weather, climate, and climate change, while also developing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Refugees, Learner Engagement
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Serafini, 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
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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
Tan 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
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Thompson, Mary – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2008
In this article, the author describes her multimodal teaching practices in her "Adolescent Literacy Methods" course at a graduate university in the United States. By doing so, she highlights content teacher's understanding and use of various multimodal texts to effectively teach adolescents inside the classroom. In lieu of this, she raises…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Learning Modalities, Adolescents, Literacy
du Bois-Reymond, Manuela – 1999
Learners may be categorized as follows: (1) intrinsically motivated intellectuals; (2) extrinsically motivated mass learners, as represented by modern school youth; (3) extrinsically motivated learners in continuous requalification; and (4) intrinsically motivated "trendsetters." Although intrinsically motivated learners tend to be found…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Aging (Individuals), At Risk Persons, Attitude Change