Reflection

For Task 1, What’s in my Bag, I shared the contents of my bag using a combination of modes including visual (photo), linguistic (text), and spatial (content arrangement/page layout). For Task 7, Mode Bending, I was inspired by the New London Group’s (1996) “designs of meaning” (p. 73) framework, which addresses the ever-changing and contextually-driven relationship between “available designs, designing, and the redesigned” (p. 74). 

The idea that literacy pedagogy must now “account for the context of our culturally and linguistically diverse and increasingly globalized societies” (pg. 61, 1996), I was encouraged to explore parts of the task by including the same modes from Task1, visual and spatial – this time a video with different artistic impressions of my original photo encompassing various art elements with an audio explanation for linguistics. 

This new artifact better reflects my story than Task 1, especially with its inclusion of art. Art is so important to my story but it is sometimes lost in the perception of me. And the audio, inflections and intonation add to who I am. 

References

New London Group. (1996). A pedagogy of multiliteracies: Designing social futures. Harvard Educational Review, 66(1), 60-92.