How does “multi-modal literacy” differ from “literacy”?
Literacy is a set of skills focused upon linear, sequential texts, usually printed in the conventional format of books or articles, whereas intertextuality is stressed with multi-modal literacy, and different types of texts are examined.

How does a student benefit from multi-modal literacy development?
Multi-modal literacy classrooms allows students to see the value of “different” texts, and opens their eyes to questioning why certain texts have been valued, and why others are only recently give the same credence. Some metacognition occurs, and helps students recognize the strategies “others use in communicating” (Anne Wysocki).

What are the barriers to incorporating multi-modal literacy in the classroom?

• Information storage, money, the internet can be unsafe, unequal exposure to resources and tech, home access is spotty. But this can all be combated by looking at the spectrum of mml activities, and use graphic representations of texts, create texts together, etc.
• How can we connect educational theory that advocates this new literacy with our own classroom practices?
• Make tech demonstrations relevant to teaching that is “already underway”, use that technology as a tool to aid instruction in what you’re already doing – no need to center lessons around the tech, just make it a feature of your pedagogy