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Jiang, Shiyan; Wang, Changzhao – Learning, Media and Technology, 2023
As multimodal composition is gradually integrated into STEM learning, research is needed to examine how to fully connect multimodal composing practices and STEM practices to support students' STEM identity exploration. To fill in this gap, we conducted a design-based research project to investigate how students explored STEM identities in a…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Self Concept, Intermode Differences, Learning Modalities
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William Romine; Delinda van Garderen; William Folk; Amy Lannin; Rachel Juergensen; Cassandra Smith; Heba Abedelnaby; Tracey Milarsky – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2024
Today's students live within a world filled with complexity, uncertainty, and misinformation; thus, educators need to help all learners, including students with learning disabilities, how to comprehend complex information about the natural world and make credible evidence-based claims. Our study is a first step in making this possible. In this…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Students with Disabilities, Middle School Teachers, Science Education
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Sofkova Hashemi, Sylvana – Designs for Learning, 2022
Drawing on experiences from a large-scale Nordic co-design research project, this paper explores the development of cross-border blended education with the aim to strengthen students' Nordic identity and knowledge of neighboring Nordic languages illuminating the flow of didactical designs students were offered to engage in, i.e. the knowledge…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Design, Blended Learning, Educational Development
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Schmidt, Kimberly McDavid; Beucher, Rebecca – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2020
Purpose: This study aims to investigate the ways affective intensities arise in the intra-actions within an assemblage (three Black girls, objects such as computers and hoodies, institutionalized discourse associated with race and successful participation in schools) as the girls create multimodal responses to literature. This paper shows how the…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Race, Sex, Females
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Emily Howell – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2018
Purpose: This study was conducted in ninth- and tenth-grade classrooms with the goal of studying effective scaffolding for improving argumentative writing, both conventional and digital/multimodal. Design/methodology/approach: The author conducted a formative experiment in two high-school classrooms to study ways teachers integrated forms of…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Multimedia Instruction, Intermode Differences, Learning Modalities
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Shivers, James; Levenson, Cyra; Tan, Mei – Learning Disabilities: A Contemporary Journal, 2017
A vibrant theory of change capable of fueling critical practice may be an indispensable feature of teaching argument in secondary education. According to the PIE model (Perception, Interpretation, Expression), layers of experience build a cognitive scaffold to support the development of critical skills. In addition, incorporating works of art and…
Descriptors: Visual Literacy, Creativity, Persuasive Discourse, Writing Instruction
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Zhang, Ying – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2016
This article reports the results of an ethnographic research about the multimodal science discourse in a sixth-grade sheltered classroom involving English Language Learners (ELLs) only. Drawing from the perspective of multimodality, this study examines how science learning is constructed in science lectures through multiple semiotic resources,…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Middle School Students, Grade 6, Ethnography
Gewertz, Catherine – Education Week, 2013
Using an article about labor leader Cesar Chavez's grape boycott and hunger strike, students at Stuart-Hobson Middle School in Washington, D.C., are doing a "close read," a skill prized by the new Common Core State Standards being put into practice in the District of Columbia. As an English/language arts teacher in the common-core era,…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, State Standards, Academic Standards, Language Arts
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Spires, Hiller A.; Hervey, Lisa G.; Morris, Gwynn; Stelpflug, Catherine – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2012
In light of emerging technologies prompting new avenues for teaching and learning, students are positioned to "create" to learn, with video production being an important process for literacy development. There is a growing need for innovative instructional practices in reading and writing that are aligned with student interests and the activities…
Descriptors: Literacy, Teaching Methods, Video Technology, Student Interests
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She, Hsiao-Ching; Chen, Yi-Zen – Computers & Education, 2009
This study examined how middle school students constructed their understanding of the mitosis and meiosis processes at a molecular level through multimedia learning materials presented in different interaction and sensory modality modes. A two (interaction modes: animation/simulation) by two (sensory modality modes: narration/on-screen text)…
Descriptors: Animation, Eye Movements, Attention, Interaction