Multimodal play and remixing
A topic I found interesting was multimodal play. I found this interesting because it is very similar to my jobs view on education. It is the idea that we can combine literacy, play, and what children are interested in. According to Lankshear & Knobel (2013), a challenge with this pedagogy for educators is that they need to be flexible and quick thinking when it comes to their curriculum. The interests of young adults are always changing as well as the digital media that is being used. Another challenge is that it is not a typical style of curriculum for schools to increase the use of digital media in classrooms, such as phones. Thus, it can be hard for school administrators to stand behind the concept of letting adolescents use their phones and computers more during school. I enjoyed reading the different ways educators incorporated multimodal play into classrooms of older students. I only work with preschool-4th grade students, so it is very different how the lower grades and...