Summary
This article highlights the importance of offering diverse media and materials for expression in educational settings. It discusses how this approach reduces barriers for learners with disabilities, validates various communication forms, and helps all learners develop a broad range of expressive skills for a media-rich world.
Supporting Diverse Media for Expression in Learning
Highlights
Importance of Diverse Media
Encouraging a variety of media and materials for expression is critical unless specific media are essential to a learning goal. This approach significantly reduces media-specific communication barriers for learners with disabilities. It also validates forms of communication that have been historically undervalued.
Benefits for All Learners
Providing diverse media increases opportunities for all learners to develop a wider range of expression in a media-rich world. For example, learners should be taught composition beyond just writing, understanding how to choose the optimal medium for any particular content, expression, and audience.