Final Reflection-Kist

This class helped me think of multi-modality in different ways. In a sense, everything can be viewed as a text. In addition, there are so many ways multi-modality can be intertwined in the classroom. Multi-modality is a way to incorporate traditional teachings with enhanced modernized teaching. For instance, teaching classic literature, and having the students participate with online literature circles. With the growing technology, future generations are going to need the multi-modality in the classroom because that is the society they will live in. Traditional teaching will be a thing of the past. Starting now with Twitter and Facebook, people are able to know what each other is doing at all times of the day. With me personally, “my friends” that I haven’t talked to in years, I still know what they are up to through Facebook. However, through multi-modality people can hinder their communication skills. There needs to be a balance with social interaction. We cannot rely solely on Twitter and Facebook to stay connected to others. Also, there needs to be a balance with traditional in-class discussion along with multi-modality.

Through writing the blogs I am able to express my individual opinions and thoughts of my future teaching. I can decide (for the most part) how I want to teach and what my classroom structure will be. However, with blogs I believe they should be more choice. I am not a fan of forced blogs because it should be the freedom of expression. I think blogs are a great idea and there is so much that can be done with them. I have done blogs for six classes and I can’t say I would continue with any of them. In the classroom, I think I would show students the “hobby” of blogging and the sites they can do it on (in a safe way). I have viewed several blogs before and there are some very creative ones for anyone’s interests. Maybe I would use blogging as a literature circle format, but I probably won’t have students keep a running blog.