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Dunbar, Laura – General Music Today, 2016
Technology is constantly changing, and it can be challenging to move beyond the "bells and whistles" of a new app or piece of software to confirm worthiness for classroom use. This article explores the balance point between technology use and more traditional modalities in the music classroom.
Descriptors: Music, Music Education, Technology Uses in Education, Learning Modalities
Dickens, Rachel Haley – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The purpose of the present study was to examine the effects of reading modality (oral versus silent) and passage genre (narrative versus expository) on the reading comprehension of middle school students. A normative sample of sixth- and seventh-grade students (N = 175) read narrative and expository texts from the Qualitative Reading Inventory,…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Learning Modalities, Reading Comprehension, Middle School Students
Mascia, Maria Lidia; Fastame, Maria Chiara; Agus, Mirian; Lucangeli, Daniela; Penna, Maria Pietronilla – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2016
The current study aimed at exploring the impact of the modality in which numerical trainings proposed in kindergarten school. Participants were recruited from some Sardinian kindergarten schools and were then divided into three groups: a control group, which had to carry out the activities planned by the educational curriculum, and two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Numbers, Young Children
Jennifer F. Tynes – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Understanding human long bone anatomy is an important concept to master for post-secondary students that major in medical fields since skeletal structures assist in locating a pulse, conducting clinical procedures, and identifying injection sites. Skeletal anatomy is also used to name structures associated with other organ systems like veins,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Medical Students, Knowledge Level, Retention (Psychology)
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Leander, Kevin M.; Aziz, Seemi; Botzakis, Stergios; Ehret, Christian; Landry, David; Rowsell, Jennifer – Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, 2017
Our understanding of reading--including reading multimodal texts--is always constrained or opened up by what we consider to be a text, what aspects of a reader's embodied activity we focus on, and how we draw a boundary around a reading event. This article brings together five literacy researchers who respond to a human-scale graphic novel,…
Descriptors: Multimedia Materials, Novels, Cartoons, Painting (Visual Arts)
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Van Nuland, Sonya E.; Rogers, Kem A. – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2017
In the anatomical sciences, e-learning tools have become a critical component of teaching anatomy when physical space and cadaveric resources are limited. However, studies that use empirical evidence to compare their efficacy to visual-kinesthetic learning modalities are scarce. The study examined how a visual-kinesthetic experience, involving a…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Anatomy, College Students, Medical Students
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Jennifer Ansbach – English Journal, 2016
Using memorials and related nonfiction print and nonprint texts, students explore elements involved in creating a memorial and learn to think critically about the relationship between these elements.
Descriptors: High School Students, High School Teachers, American Studies, Nonfiction
de Oliveira, Luciana C., Ed.; Smith, Blaine E., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2019
Literacy practices have changed over the past several years to incorporate modes of representation much broader than language alone, in which the textual is also related to the visual, the audio, the spatial, etc. This book focuses on research and instructional practices necessary for integrating an expanded view of literacy in the classroom that…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Student Diversity, Bilingual Students, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
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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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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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Rinehart, Amanda; Sharkey, Jennifer; Kahl, Chad – College & Research Libraries, 2015
Do librarians with different characteristics, such as type of work responsibilities or age, have different learning styles? The authors analyzed results from over 1,500 responses to a version of the Index of Learning Styles (ILS) questionnaire based on the Felder-Silverman Learning Styles model. This model consists of eight dimensions paired on…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Librarians, Librarian Attitudes, Cognitive Style
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MacLean, Piers; Cahillane, Marie – International Journal of Information and Learning Technology, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to highlight the importance of coherent alignment of current theory from cognitive psychology with practice and policy in training and education institutions developing e-learning materials and present recommendations emphasising the human factor within processes. Design/methodology/approach: In this paper a…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Cognitive Psychology, Theory Practice Relationship, Educational Policy
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Sabeti, Shari – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2014
This article examines two comic book adaptations of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" produced for teenage readers and used in school classrooms. It seeks to understand the ways in which particular kinds of literacy are being implied and constructed through the textual practice of multimodal adaptation. It presents a close reading of sections of…
Descriptors: Cartoons, Novels, Classics (Literature), Adolescents
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Johnson, Bonnie; Kil, Jenny; Evans, Elaine; Koomen, Michele Hollingsworth – Science and Children, 2014
With their sunny stripes and fuzzy bodies, bees are beloved--but unfortunately, they are in trouble. Bee decline, of both wild bees as well as managed bees like honey bees, has been in the news for the last several years. Habitat loss, diseases, pests, and pesticides have made it difficult for bees to survive in many parts of our world (Walsh…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Entomology, Elementary School Science, Teaching Methods
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Patrick W. Berry; Alexandra J. Cavallaro; Elaine Vázquez; Carlos R. DeJesús; Naomi García – English Education, 2014
This article explores how an English teacher, students, and administrators at a public high school in Chicago participated in a multimodal writing project that negotiated the space between hope and critique, ultimately placing the community at the center of the curriculum. This project aims to illuminate how narrative renderings of possibility--or…
Descriptors: English Teachers, High School Teachers, High School Students, Writing Assignments
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