The Multiple Literacy Model

This model was the product of a discussion we had one day in TE991, when Dr. Hartman asked us to try to sum up what we had gleaned thus far from the class. I thought about how there seemed to be a confluence of sensory experience as it relates to textual, visual and spoken communication, positioned within a contextual framework of cultural, social and historical practices. Underlying all of this is the presence of technology, which appears to makes the process of learning and making meaning from text more efficient and expedient.

While this model tries to account for most modes of communication and implies global inclusion of all demographic and ethnic groups, there are exceptions by lack of representation, either by socio-economic or distribution factors. These dividing factors exist sporadically yet persistently, and cannot even be remedied by imposing a comprehensive model of multiple literacies. Still, it is hoped that by suggesting a model, that a paradigmatic change can be addressed and sought after as the norm, rather than the ideal.