Multimodal Composition
For Unit 2, we had covered Multimodal Composition. I think that this is such an eye-opening way, as a Secondary Education English major, to new teaching horizons. Even though literature was the "dominant" mode of teaching, it surprises me that no educators took advantage of teaching through technology and different modes while I was in high school. To begin, I want to focus on the article "Modernizing Shakespeare with Multimodal Learning Stations", and in particular the Immersion section. Shakespeare, when I was learning it, was not something I particularly enjoyed. In the article, Virtual Reality was used in one of the stations. After only two days of this station, some students were saying "If there was a Shakespeare game, I'd play it" and "I heard we'll be performing scenes later. It would be fun to do them in VR". Taking things that students are already familiar with, or interested in, is a perfect way to spike engagement. I really ...
