Monday, April 13, 2009
It's been a while
I have been busy working on my summer research proposal so it's been a while since I've checked in or rather written in or videoed in or sounded in. See all of this multimoodal communication "talk" has caused me to rethink my language choice when communicating, notice that I did not say writing as this medium offers me the opportunity to communicate using many modes of communication.
In thinking multimodally it challenges and expands my thinking when it comes to evaluating the ways in which students communicate and the ways in which we communicate to our students. My past adherence or rather privileging of certain communication modes over others is constantly called into question based upon my own biases and social construction. As a child of print I have privileged print over other communication modes probably to the dismay of my students. Multimodal teaching leads the educator to consider his/her biases or predispositions to various modes of communication and how those biases may impact students.
This becomes even more complicated when situating communication modes within power structures and environments which privilege certain modes over others, sometimes rightfully so and other times simply as a hegemonic tool meant to perpetuate and replicate the current power structure.
My reticence to use video and other communication modes speaks to my bias yet limits the reach of the communication based on its sole reliance on one mode of communication.
As I am behind in my blog postings I am going to try to use other modes of communication in my forthcoming posts to expand my communication modes.
In thinking multimodally it challenges and expands my thinking when it comes to evaluating the ways in which students communicate and the ways in which we communicate to our students. My past adherence or rather privileging of certain communication modes over others is constantly called into question based upon my own biases and social construction. As a child of print I have privileged print over other communication modes probably to the dismay of my students. Multimodal teaching leads the educator to consider his/her biases or predispositions to various modes of communication and how those biases may impact students.
This becomes even more complicated when situating communication modes within power structures and environments which privilege certain modes over others, sometimes rightfully so and other times simply as a hegemonic tool meant to perpetuate and replicate the current power structure.
My reticence to use video and other communication modes speaks to my bias yet limits the reach of the communication based on its sole reliance on one mode of communication.
As I am behind in my blog postings I am going to try to use other modes of communication in my forthcoming posts to expand my communication modes.
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