Will I ever use this in life?

I think the most important thing that is gained by multimodal is that students completely immerse themselves in the space of learning. And the knowledge gained will stick with them because as students they were participating in active learning and were part of the process. I also learned the reasons as to why teachers are so fearful or hesitant of wanting to do these types of projects. The main reason being grading. But I think that in a project as opposed to a paper, the work is clearly seen. In a paper I could stay up all night and produce a final product. However, a large project is almost impossible to fake it is extremely noticeable who put in the hours and who came up with something ten minutes ago. Perhaps the criteria should be time, effort, and relevance and students can help make the rubric with the teacher.

I think the most important thing that comes from multimodal projects is it not only forces the teacher to be creative in relating the information to their students through a project, but it forces the student to think beyond just language. I also think that so much is learned from the process because the skills in making something goes far beyond the reach of an essay, in the outside world. Being an aspiring high school teacher and current tutoring if I had a dollar for every time I hear, “Why does this matter? Why do I have to do this? Will I ever use this?”.I think that in the use of multimodality as future teachers we can combat these questions by showing students hey this topic may not be used in the outside world, but the skills you learned in doing this project definitely relates. Like Banks states in his address the essay is a dead thing it is not used in the world so why are we still using it as the primary thing in school?