In order to deliver a first glimpse on the article by James Lamb, there are a few first thoughts from my side.
The way the author addresses the subject of digital multimodality in the academic feedback process and discusses it throughout the article inspired me immediately. Especially in Switzerland, most faculty seems rather conservative concerning the use of multimodality in teaching and learning. For this reason I am surprised and pleased with the idea to use different approaches to provide more than one access to a subject or to provide feedback. But this is only one aspect. When it comes to collaboration where dialogue and discussion are key there must be a way to meet each other. I also find the fact very convincing that with muldimodal messages not only the analytical channel of perception is served, as is the case with text (printed language), but others are included and used equally: visual, auditory, narrative perception, to name but a few. The possibility was also raised that previously disadvantaged students would benefit from the multimodal model (+++). The first thing that comes to my mind are dyslexic students, who are often slowed down by slow reading and have to make a greater effort to achieve a comparable performance with the same or even higher intelligence as non-dyslexic students. Certainly, there are many more examples where the opening of the perceptual channels offers advantages.
I my understanding the relationship between teacher and student / tutor and student is a classic aspect of learning. Therefore, I like the idea that there must be some kind of dialogue. The challenge will be in my opinion to facilitate and even encourage dialogue.
In order to work out the details, I must return to the article and reflect on its relevance for my work. I think that the quality of teaching in our department would only gain if the kind of feedback culture propagated by the author could be applied.
A few questions came up during my reading and I will have to reconsider the questions and reflect them further on.
But I would love to have a closer look at the mentioned examples of Grame and Katherine? Are they published?
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