Challenges in Multimodality
In thinking about the second half of Bridging the Multimodal Gap: From Theory to Practice , I am going to focus primarily on two chapters: "When Multimodality Gets Messy" by Jennifer J. Buckner "Multimodal Pedagogy and Multimodal Assessment" by Shane A. Wood These two chapters speak to pedagogical issues that I have been grappling with throughout the semester: how to embrace multimodality when it feels unnatural and the concept of grading multimodal assignments. Both of these issues are rooted deeply in perhaps the same core issue for me, in that they deal with the ways that multimodality is a departure from traditional pedagogical values. You see, I love writing. I value writing, perhaps because it comes easily to me (most of the time), and it is not that complicated to identify a grade value for a piece of writing. In education, traditional methods and values are comfortable, definable, and, well, safe. What do we do when multimodality makes the methods of teach...