I chose to reflect on Seime Adhémar’s Mode Bending Assignment mainly because Seime used a tool called Voyant Tools which I had never heard of before. The tool and the graph’s that were created were fascinating to me but also at times a bit confusing because this is a whole new world for me.

Seime did not have items similar to me in his bag and that was also intriguing to me because I take a lot of items to and from work but Sieme is focused on carrying his teaching tools.

As an English major and History minor, I rarely use graph’s to interpret or understand data. I am used to reading and absorbing information by taking notes. I will say that when I was looking at Seime’s mode bending task, I had to go to the original “What’s in My Bag” post in order to interpret what was being shown to me with the data. Seime teaches French so there were a lot of French related teaching tools in the bag.

In my mode bending post, I reflected on how The New London Group (1996) has emphasized that learning has become multi-modal and that “the process of shaping emergent meaning involves representation and recontextualization”(p. 75). With Seime’s interpretation of the mode bending assignment, I see how others and their ways of interpreting and looking at data can be very different from mine. I also have reflected on how I, as an educator, can try to create learning opportunities for my students that would allow them to showcase their interests even if it way be a realm that I am unfamiliar with.

References

The New London Group. (1996). A pedagogy of Multiliteracies: Designing Social Futures. Harvard Educational Review 66 (1), 60-92.