{"id":50,"date":"2021-10-24T15:48:09","date_gmt":"2021-10-24T22:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tlmcleodetec540\/?p=50"},"modified":"2021-10-24T15:48:09","modified_gmt":"2021-10-24T22:48:09","slug":"mode-bending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tlmcleodetec540\/2021\/10\/24\/mode-bending\/","title":{"rendered":"Mode-Bending"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 620px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-50-1\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tlmcleodetec540\/files\/2021\/10\/Whats-in-my-bag-revisited.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tlmcleodetec540\/files\/2021\/10\/Whats-in-my-bag-revisited.mp4\">https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tlmcleodetec540\/files\/2021\/10\/Whats-in-my-bag-revisited.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This task was more difficult for me than I thought it should be and it took a bit to come up with a plan.\u00a0 The initial purpose of the task was to introduce myself while thinking about the reason I carry the items that I do.\u00a0 A photo of the items from a bag I take to work at school each day placed on a desk does little to say why I carry what I do.\u00a0 My goal for this task was to give the objects in my bag some meaning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe choice of semiotic resource for meaning-making is never made at random\u201d (Danielsson &amp; Selander, 2021, p. 19).\u00a0 I purposely chose to narrate in my own voice, since I own the objects and they were in my bag.\u00a0 Rather than use the same photo of the objects that was already seen in Task 1, I chose to use other images to represent the objects.\u00a0 As well, each slide had its own colour, just to make a distinction between different groups of objects and their potential uses during my day.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a teacher, I do mode-bending or changing on a regular basis.\u00a0 As the New London Group states, we need to take into account the \u201cvariety of text forms associated with information and multimedia technologies\u201d (1996, p. 61).\u00a0 As technologies available to me change, I change my lessons to accommodate them.\u00a0 As a teacher, I design learning environments that result in students being productive and learning (New London Group, 1996).\u00a0 When students are not learning, mode changing takes place.\u00a0 It might be spontaneously during a particular lesson, or with more thought for the next day\u2019s lesson.\u00a0 How the mode changes depends a great deal on the learners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>References<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Danielsson K., Selander S. (2021) Semiotic Modes and Representations of Knowledge. In <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Multimodal Texts in Disciplinary Education <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(pp. 17-23). Springer, Cham. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/978-3-030-63960-0_3\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/978-3-030-63960-0_3<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The New London Group.\u00a0 (1996). <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/newarcproject.pbworks.com\/f\/Pedagogy%2Bof%2BMultiliteracies_New%2BLondon%2BGroup.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A pedagogy of multiliteracies: Designing social futures.)<\/span><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Harvard Educational Review<\/span><\/i> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">66<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(1), 60-92.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This task was more difficult for me than I thought it should be and it took a bit to come up with a plan.\u00a0 The initial purpose of the task was to introduce myself while thinking about the reason I carry the items that I do.\u00a0 A photo of the items from a bag [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tlmcleodetec540\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tlmcleodetec540\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tlmcleodetec540\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tlmcleodetec540\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tlmcleodetec540\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tlmcleodetec540\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tlmcleodetec540\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tlmcleodetec540\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tlmcleodetec540\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tlmcleodetec540\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}