Reaction to Kress article

In many ways I completely agree with the points Kress is making in this article. Learning in just one modality (such as text) is limiting you solely to what written words can provide. If you add in things such as art, music and video documentary you are allowing yourself to learn on completely different levels. You can read all about the different sounds of different instruments in a book, but you'll never fully know them until you hear them play. You can read a scientific article about the different pigments and levels in different colors that exists, but without accompanying pictures, you're losing out on that aspect of it.

Using multimodalities, learning becomes more thorough and also more easily accessible for different types of learners. This is something that I see everywhere: posters and pamphlets, textbooks, novels, newspapers. I think that we definitely benefit from multimodal learning and if we ever eliminated any parts of it, our society would be very different.