This task, Mode Bending, is a continuation of sorts from Task 1 ~ ‘What’s In Your Bag?’.
Since the mid 1990 s there has been discussion of multiliteracies and multimodal expressions of literary understanding and use. Education must adapt. The challenge for Task 7 was to take an existing work (Task 1) and ‘bend’ it into another form of expressing the concept by changing the mode in which it is represented. Therefore, our challenge was to change from a visual to audio. I wasn’t quite sure with what medium I might express this. Through the inspiration of my classmates, I decided that the Genially platform might provide an interesting medium through which I could bend this photo into an oral presentation. One of the questions in Task 1 was to ponder what an archeologist from the future might make of the artifacts carried in your bag. I chose to use this idea as an angle to create my new audio-visual mode of meaning presented here in Task 7. In my hypothetical future in which a teacher of a 21st century history class is presenting the archeological artifact. I try to use an impersonal (as much as that may be possible) view from ‘30,000 feet’ of what our modes of literacy and technology might look like from a future in which technology has made obsolete the things we carry today. In conclusion, in the ‘assignment’ for homework to said students (in the future) I try to portray the idea that the medium of interaction, the tools of analysis and the mode of presentation might all be different depending on emergent technologies we see today and how they might be used in the future.
In the image below, click first on the top centre ‘question mark’ icon, then each item and finally at bottom centre, the homework assignment to hear an audio clip. As a note of disclosure, this commentary from a hypothetical future is meant to be in jest, don’t be offended if you disagree with any commentary or take on this piece of fiction as it is meant to be humourous. I hope you enjoy and feel free to comment.