Meaning and balance

MEANING MEANING MEANING. The title of the chapter says it all- meaning that matters.
Students will constantly ask 'why' and they should!  I think more people should ask why instead of just taking things at face value.  If something's being taught in school, students should have context to apply it to. Why are we doing this? When are we going to use this? Both questions any teacher should be prepared to answer regarding anything they're teaching, without falter.

The components that provide teachers direction toward this reframing include: (1) providing explicit multimodal design instruction and attention; (2) co-constructing authentic purposes for representing multimodal meaning for an audience; (3) designing multimodal composing activities that invite students to draw on their identity lifeworlds as resources; and (4) creating functional social spaces for mediating multimodal learning.
- Miller

"Since we cannot erase visual texts from modern life...we much challenge students to analyze critically the texts they view [and help them] learn to employ visual media as another powerful means of communication." - Lund (78).
^finding BALANCE, again something important. This goes back to talking about multiliteracies- reading visual clues as a language with no words... But here she's looping it back to strengthen communication.