Foundations of Embodied Learning advances learning, instruction, and the design of
educational technologies by rethinking the learner as an integrated system of mind, body …

Abstract The Gesture as Simulated Action (GSA) framework was proposed to explain how
gestures arise from embodied simulations of the motor and perceptual states that occur …

A rising epistemological paradigm in the cognitive sciences—embodied cognition—has
been stimulating innovative approaches, among educational researchers, to the design and …

Background The just-in-time adaptive intervention (JITAI) is an intervention design aiming to
provide the right type/amount of support, at the right time, by adapting to an individual's …

This research investigated how teachers express links between ideas in speech, gestures,
and other modalities in middle school mathematics instruction. We videotaped 18 lessons (3 …

How does communicative efficiency shape language use? We approach this question by
studying it at the level of the dyad, and in terms of multimodal utterances. We investigate …

Teachers' gestures are an integral part of their instructional communication. In this study, we
provided a teacher with a tutorial about ways to use gesture in connecting ideas in …

Research on classroom-based interventions in mathematics education has two core
aims:(a) to improve classroom practice by engineering ways to act upon problems of …

Theories of grounded and embodied cognition posit that situated actions are central
constituents in cognitive processes. We investigate whether grounding actions influence …

Prior research has shown that gestures that co-occur with speech can improve
understanding of abstract concepts by embodying the underlying meaning of those …