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Multimodal Instruction: Engaging Generation Z
40%
Of high school students are disengaged
(Crotty, 2013)
Students Fail English
Because they lack motivation and cannot see real-life connections
(Darrington & Dousay, 2015)
Low-Income Students
Multimodal Writing
Drop out at disproportional rates due to literacy issues
Boosts student motivation, especially among low-income kids
(Zenkov & Harmon, 2009)
The image to the left shows how different areas of the brain store information from different sensory inputs. Thoughts or perceptions are composed from different channels of memory, stored in different areas. Even recalling how to take a single step requires access to several different brain regions. As a result, when students are given information on a topic via multiple modalities they are able to recall more about that topic later.
(Marchetti & Cullen, 2015)
The idea that certain students learn better through certain modalities is a myth. The fact is that all students learn best when information is presented through multiple modalities. As a result, these modalities should be chosen based on the content of the lesson, not the preferences of the students. Multimodal texts can effectively deliver information in several modalities at once.
(Whitman & Kelleher, 2016)
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