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Peer reviewedJewitt, Carey; Kress, Gunther; Ogborn, Jon; Charalampos, Tsatsarelis – Educational Review, 2001
A study of the ways science students transformed their teacher's description of cells suggests that learning is multimodal, arising from the interaction of visual, verbal, and linguistic communication. It demonstrates that learning is a process of selection, adaptation, and transformation of information across communication systems. (Author/SK)
Descriptors: Active Learning, Communication (Thought Transfer), Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education
