Multi-Modality

 

Wow. Multimodality is so important for future instruction and providing an important illustration on how that method of instruction assists students with their work. Specifically, providing different aims by incorporating visual, sonic, and aesthetics helps students to have multiple examples on how to compose, perform, and learn a task or assignment.

I am currently taking Biology 323 (Biology of Sex) and the course provides a different objective compared to typical biological courses: incorporating Multimodality. In the beginning of the semester, students were drilled with various examples on how to learn the process of meiosis. Students were instructed by the professor’s sonic instruction (Audio), PowerPoint slides (Visual), and demonstrating videos to provide a clearer method to understand the material. However, the professor stepped up her game and incorporated something new, a new method I have never experienced in college: Kinesthetic, and working physically with various colors of clay.

This video here illustrates the various colors we used to re-create the process of meiosis. This video is in Claymation, however, every single student enacted the same process in the classroom. Learning this extensive process assisted me tremendously as a students and I asked the professor where did she learned this method of instruction. Her response, “I used to teach elementary school and realized the effectiveness by including physical touch with course work.”

Overall, this example of multimodality helped me to really think how I want to create a lesson plan for the final project. I have Ideas to include various colors of clay and composing words with the clay. Sorry that I am missing class today and will be there on Wednesday.

 

Best,

Ruben Mendoza