Communication and Expression
What: The capacity for Communication and Expression equips learners to create, develop, and express messages with an audience in mind (e.g., using writing, speaking, listening, dialogue, sound, visual images, media, embodied expression, movement, and networked digital tools) and receive and analyze messages developed by others.
Why: Learners’ ability to communicate and express themselves enables them to carefully craft messages tailored to multiple audiences, express their messages in different forms, and evaluate the messages they receive from others. Making meaning together with other people through the mutual exchange of communication messages is an essential life skill.
Communication and Expression Capacity
Communicate ideas with specific audiences in mind.
- Adapt ideas to the needs of individuals, groups, and diverse cultural contexts.
- Identify and target multiple audiences as needed.
- Locate, evaluate, and use evidence relevant to the communication context, including genre, goals, audience, purpose, platforms, and modalities.
Express ideas through a purposefully chosen medium.
- Use relevant expression conventions for clarity and precision.
- Adopt genres and styles appropriate to purpose and audience.
- Demonstrate clear and purposeful organizational structure expressing ideas.
- Reflect on one’s expressions.
- Use media and technologies to express ideas in meaningful and innovative ways.
Explain the meaning of ideas communicated by others.
- Engage in active, sender-centered reception of ideas.
- Evaluate the ethical elements of an expression of ideas.
- Comprehend simultaneous modes of expression.
- Distinguish intent, influence, and impact of expressions.
- Accurately identify, understand, interpret, and synthesize meanings embedded in multimodal expressions of ideas.
- Mindfully respond to others’ expressed ideas to reach mutual understanding.