In the Lower School, teachers integrate technology into their lessons through the use of
multimodal instruction.
Embedded formative and summative assessments, scaffolded supports, and a balance of instructionally appropriate text and media elements, such as video, provide students with
multimodal instruction to address diverse learning styles.
Not exact matches
A
multimodal learning system is also beginning to emerge: instructor - centered learning, which is the traditional approach, but with technology that helps the teacher mediate the delivery of courseware and
instruction; pupil - centered learning, in which the student uses Internet resources to expand learning experiences; and collaborative learning, in which the student and others on the Internet work together on cross-disciplinary projects concerning open - ended problems.
It requires that our methods
instruction expand from discussions about how to teach prescribed content to how to choose the materials we teach in order to prepare secondary students with the skills they need to make and create meaning from the variety of
multimodal texts they encounter inside and outside the classroom.
Participants chose to use apps to represent and explore concepts, demonstrate procedures, provide practice, give immediate feedback, support
multimodal learning, differentiate
instruction, and assess understanding.
Today, literacy
instruction is being defined by changes in technologies that require students to read and write
multimodal texts (Cope & Kalantiz, 2009; Leu, Kinzer, Coiro, & Cammack, 2004).