Multimodality

I found this article to be very thought provoking. As a pre-nursing student I have taken many science classes that use the multimodal approach to learning. Instead of just listening and taking notes, we have labs where we can actually physically do the experiments that are talked about in textbooks. All of these approaches to learning are very diverse. Some people are visual, some can just listen to a professor speak and completely understand the topic, and others are more hands on. I think it is really important to learn from various methods in order to completely understand a topic. As far as "multisemiotics" and "multiliteracies" go, well....... to be honest, I am slightly confused about this whole topic in general. I don't want to go on writing about something I don't completely understand. Hopefully, my confusion will be clarified a little bit during class discussion.