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Detra Price-Dennis – English Education, 2016
Teacher educators, literacy scholars, and classroom teachers are beginning to develop curricula that leverage digital literacy practices and make visible what elementary students are learning across modalities. Although this body of work provides valuable examples (e.g., digital storytelling, innovative uses of digital apps and platforms, creating…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, African American Students, Females, Digital Literacy
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Shih, Yu-Chih Doris; Liu, Yu-Ching; Sanchez, Claudia – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2013
With the growing advances in telecommunication techniques, many countries have adopted e-learning into school education and life-long learning. College institutions in Taiwan and many other countries have followed such trend by establishing a wide variety of distance learning course offerings. In these new multicultural teaching and learning…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Distance Education, Undergraduate Students, Cultural Differences
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Harte, Helene Arbouet – Dimensions of Early Childhood, 2013
Engagement in the natural environment provides authentic and concrete opportunities for children to enhance development in all domains (Bailie, 2010). As children play and explore in nature they build gross motor development moving through the outdoors. Learning outside and in nature not only allows for learning across subject areas and…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Natural Resources, Play, Experiential Learning
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Morgan, Hani – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2013
Many children struggle with reading and are seldom engaged in this process when teachers assign them to read. Young learners may lack motivation to read an dislike this activity because they have had frequently have unpleasant experiences with reading. If educators fail to provide support for struggling readers, these pupils will likely experience…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Teaching Methods, Reading Instruction, Reading Difficulties
Yang, Yezhou – ProQuest LLC, 2015
Modern intelligent agents will need to learn the actions that humans perform. They will need to recognize these actions when they see them and they will need to perform these actions themselves. We want to propose a cognitive system that interprets human manipulation actions from perceptual information (image and depth data) and consists of…
Descriptors: Observation, Object Manipulation, Perceptual Motor Coordination, Semantics
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Oliveira, Alandeom W.; Rivera, Seema; Glass, Rory; Mastroianni, Michael; Wizner, Francine; Amodeo, Vincent – Research in Science Education, 2014
This study examines elementary teachers reading children's science books aloud to students in the US. Our findings show that science read-aloud semiosis (meaning-making) extends beyond text delivery. In addition to making a written text orally available to students, teachers also deploy different types of gestures (pointing and iconic…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Science, Science Instruction, Reading Aloud to Others
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Anderton, Ryan S.; Chiu, Li Shan; Aulfrey, Susan – International Journal of Higher Education, 2016
Anatomy and physiology teaching has undergone significant changes to keep up with advances in technology and to cater for a wide array of student specific learning approaches. This paper examines perceptions towards a variety of teaching instruments, techniques, and innovations used in the delivery and teaching of anatomy and physiology for health…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, College Faculty, Anatomy, Health Sciences
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Sakr, Mona – Learning, Media and Technology, 2012
The expression of the self through multimodal texts is a central theme in education. While it has been suggested that new technologies act as important mediators in the relationship between texts and subjectivity, the mechanisms underlying such mediation has been a neglected topic of research. This paper considers the theoretical assumptions upon…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Self Concept, Educational Media, Intermode Differences
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Gonzales, Laura – Composition Forum, 2015
This article situates one possible future for rhetorical genre studies (RGS) in the translingual, multimodal composing practices of linguistically diverse composition students. Using focus group data collected with L1 (English as a first language) and L2 (English as a second language) students at two large public state universities, the researcher…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, English (Second Language), Native Speakers, English
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Gachago, Daniela; Cronje, Franci; Ivala, Eunice; Condy, Janet; Chigona, Agnes – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2014
While digital storytelling has entered higher education as a vehicle to reflect on issues of identity and difference, there is a paucity of research framed by a critical perspective unpacking underlying power structures in the classroom. This study reports on an ongoing project in a South African pre-service Teacher Education course in which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Modalities, Preservice Teachers, Resistance (Psychology)
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Izmirli, Serkan; Kurt, Adile Askim – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2016
The purpose of the study was to examine the effects of instruction given with different multimedia modalities (written text + animation or narration + animation) on the academic achievement, cognitive load, and positive affect in different paces (learner-paced or system-paced); 97 freshmen university students divided into four groups taught in…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Academic Achievement, Educational Environment
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Pittman, Corinthus Omari; Lawdis, Katina – Journal of Educators Online, 2017
Skilled therapy practitioners are required by their governing associations to seek professional development per licensure requirements. These requirements facilitate clinical reasoning and confidence during patient care. There are limited online professional development workshops, especially ones that offer multifactorial training as an…
Descriptors: Training Methods, Skill Development, Competence, Allied Health Personnel
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Harris, Frances – Education 3-13, 2017
This paper investigates forest school practitioners perceptions of learning at forest school to identify the topics covered, the learning styles, and the philosophies underpinning its delivery, based on interviews with experienced forest school practitioners. Practitioners identified the focus of learning at forest school as social development:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Forestry, Forestry Occupations, Environmental Education
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Dickinson, Hannah; Werner, Maggie M. – Composition Studies, 2015
This article analyzes the genre of the sourced comic as an important pedagogical tool in the development of both alphabetic and multimodal literacies. We argue that sourced comics provide multiple design elements with which students can explore their complex relationships with scholarly sources, make visible various power relations informing…
Descriptors: Literary Genres, Cartoons, Teaching Methods, Multiple Literacies
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Reinwein, Joachim – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2012
The modality effect is a central issue in multimedia learning [see Mayer (Cambridge University Press, 2005a), for a review]. Sweller's Cognitive Load Theory (CLT), for example, presumes that an illustrated text is better understood when presented visually rather than orally. The predictive power of CLT lies in how it links in to Baddeley's (1986)…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Multimedia Instruction, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level
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