Mike Gagné: Immersed Into a Multimodal Landscape

In this segment of Let's Talk Design, Farnaz and Mike get into the concept of multimodality in teaching, emphasizing its importance in accommodating diverse learning styles and engaging students in a media-saturated world.

Mike shares innovative teaching approaches that incorporate multimodality, including a lesson plan that utilizes AI music creation, highlighting the need for educators to embrace new methods and technologies to enhance student learning.

They also, inevitably, discuss the current challenges in the ELT systems, particularly focusing on the precarious situation partial-load and part-time college professors are currently facing in Canada.

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ELT= English Language Teaching

COMM= Communications (college-level writing courses)

ESL= English as a Second Language

EAP= English for Academic Purposes

C2 English level= the highest level on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) scale, signifying near-native fluency 

LMS= Learning Management System

UDL= Universal Design for Learning

Suno AI Music: https://suno.com/

Theme music:

Periscope by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Artist: http://audionautix.com/