Richard Watkin’s article response

I really liked the ideas expressed in this article. As a future teacher i think it is very important to teach on a level at which connects with your current students. I love the end of his article where he makes the comment "could spark interest in otherwise dormant writers". That is such a true statement, and sometimes a student just needs something they can connect with, to get them interested in a subject they never were before. If a student can feel they will succeed at writing using multi -literacies instead of just the traditional form of composition, it may be the trigger they need to be a great writer. Also there was a good point made in the article which we also brought up in class,about how children in this day and age are surrounded by multimedia and to bring them into a classroom where they are not hit with a ton of different medias and just the old school ways of composition, they are going to become bored and uninterested. As educators we need to keep up with our students interest, and by adding these visual texts is a great way to stay connected with them.