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Schmier, Stephanie Anne – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2022
This article explores the possibilities of incorporating collaborative digital storytelling into preservice teacher education to support teachers in learning about their students' rich perspectives on teaching and learning. Data were gathered in an elementary literacy methods course at a public university in the northeastern United States to…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Literacy
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Chettaoui, Neila; Atia, Ayman; Bouhlel, Med Salim – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2022
Embodied learning pedagogy highlights the interconnections between the brain, body, and the concrete environment. As a teaching method, it provides means of engaging the physical body in multimodal learning experiences to develop the students' cognitive process. Based on this perspective, several research studies introduced different interaction…
Descriptors: Learning Modalities, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Elementary School Students
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Barnes, Melissa; Tour, Ekaterina – Literacy, 2023
While digital multimodal composing, underpinned by a critical literacies approach, provides opportunities for students to make informed semiotic choices and voice concerns about social issues, there is limited research exploring how digital multimodal composing is employed to interrogate and challenge the entanglements of language, immigration…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
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Kjällander, Susanne; Mannila, Linda; Åkerfeldt, Anna; Heintz, Fredrik – Education Sciences, 2021
Digital competence and programming are actively highlighted areas in education worldwide. They are becoming part of curricula all over the world, including the Swedish elementary school curriculum, Children are expected to develop "computational thinking" through programming activities, mainly in mathematics--which are supposed to be…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, National Curriculum, Computer Science Education, Programming
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Liu, Tzu-Chien; Lin, Yi-Chun; Gao, Yuan; Paas, Fred – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2019
The finding that under split-attention conditions students learn more from a picture and spoken text than from a picture and written text (ie, the modality effect) has consistently been found in many types of computer-assisted multimedia learning environments. Using 58 fifth-grade and sixth-grade elementary school children as participants, we…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Educational Technology
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Rich, Sara E. House; Duhon, Gary J.; Reynolds, James – Journal of Behavioral Education, 2017
Computers have become an important piece of technology in classrooms for implementing academic interventions. Often, students' responses to these interventions are used to help make important educational decisions. Therefore, it is important to consider the effect of these interventions across multiple contexts. For example, previous research has…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Teaching Methods, Student Attitudes
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Allison, Barbara N.; Rehm, Marsha L. – Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 2016
Online classes have become a popular and viable method of educating students in both K-12 settings and higher education, including in family and consumer sciences (FCS) programs. Online learning dramatically affects the way students learn. This article addresses how online learning can accommodate the sensory learning modalities (sight, hearing,…
Descriptors: Consumer Science, Family Life Education, Electronic Learning, Multisensory Learning
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Lee, Lay Wah – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2016
With the advent of touch-screen interfaces on the tablet computer, multisensory elements in reading instruction have taken on a new dimension. This computer assisted language learning research aimed to determine whether specific technology features of a tablet computer can add to the functionality of multisensory instruction in early reading…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 2, Teaching Methods, Learning Modalities
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Alyson Simpson; Maureen Walsh – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2015
Purpose: This paper aims to interrogate the place of literature in the digital world and the way a narrative is represented in digital spaces. In the changing landscape of digital, mobile and virtual texts, the authors aimed to examine how multimodal and animated elements in digital narratives engage young readers and encourage affective and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Childrens Literature, Electronic Books
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Leslie, Kimberley Crompton; Low, Renae; Jin, Putai; Sweller, John – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2012
Two experiments using the science topics of Magnetism and Light were conducted with younger learners (Year 5) who had no prior knowledge of the topics, and older learners (Year 6) who had studied the topics previously. Half of the learners were presented the information in auditory form only while the other half were presented the auditory…
Descriptors: Expertise, Prior Learning, Redundancy, Age Differences
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Liu, Ming-Chou; Wang, Jhen-Yu – Educational Technology & Society, 2010
Theme-based learning (TBL) refers to learning modes which adopt the following sequence: (a) finding the theme; (b) finding a focus of interest based on the theme; (c) finding materials based on the focus of interest; (d) integrating the materials to establish shared knowledge; (e) publishing and sharing the integrated knowledge. We have created an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Concept Mapping, Elementary School Students, Cognitive Style
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Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Spector, J. Michael, Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaías, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2017
These proceedings contain the papers of the 14th International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA 2017), 18-20 October 2017, which has been organized by the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) and endorsed by the Japanese Society for Information and Systems in…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Student Journals, Diaries, Self Management
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Burke, Anne; Rowsell, Jennifer – E-Learning, 2007
The authors examine how to assess multimodal reading practices with a group of middle school students attending an elementary school in Eastern Canada. They argue that to assess new reading practices, we need a fine-grained account of what students do, when they do it, with whom, why they do it, and finally, where they go in web space. The authors…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy, Reading Instruction, Middle School Students
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Lai, Ah-Fur; Chen, Deng-Jyi; Chen, Shu-Ling – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2008
The IRT (Item Response Theory) has been studied and applied in computer-based test for decades. However, almost of all these existing studies evaluated focus merely on test questions with text-based (or static text/graphic) type of presentation form illustrated exclusively. In this paper, we present our study on test questions using both…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Semantics, Difficulty Level, Item Response Theory
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Hastie, Megan; Chen, Nian-Shing; Kuo, Yen-Hung – Educational Technology & Society, 2007
This paper investigates the correlation between the quality of instructional design and learning outcomes for early childhood students in the online synchronous cyber classroom. Today's generation of e-learners has access to highly engaging and well-designed multi-media synchronous classrooms. However little data exists on what constitutes…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Guides, Demonstration Programs, Instructional Design