Pedagogy of Multiliteracies: designing social future
Models: New London Group
Linguistic: writing,speech,sign language
Gestural: sign language
Visual: sign language, writing
Spatial: examples: teacher standing: students sitting, architecture
Aural: Speech, music, example: alarm sounding has meaning
Difference between mode and medium?
-words on page are also spatial as well as visual
-rhetoric has always been multimodal not just writing
-medium is vehicle for mode
-technical communication is rhetorical.
-purpose, audience
-most important factor technical writing is audience
-audience driven rhetorically