Week #7-Theories and Practices of Multimodal Education:The Instructional Dynamics of Picture Books and Primary Classrooms

The concept of Multimodality can be summed up as follows : It's so much more than just the words!  With today's digital natives and the new literacies you cannot just focus on the letters, the sounds, and the words.  You must incorporate the entire picture literally into instruction.  Not only the words and the illustrations, but how the words are written, size, font, color.  Also, where the words are written on the page, how the words are written on the page and whose perspective the words are written from.  Meaning and knowledge are gleaned by the student holistically.  Linear is out and varying, integrated, whole is in.