Multiliteracies

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 Multiliteracies looks at the emerging surge in technological changes in literacy. Reading and writing are becoming more and more important as a need in communication increases. With this increase in emailing, internet sites, internet blogs and text messages reading and writing skills are needed more than ever before. In modern day multiliteracies are very common as children now can use many different types of multimedia such as DVDs, CDs and computer games to develop their literacy skills.  Multiliteracies are the way of the future where the internet is becoming more important in the everyday life of businesses and in home life around the world. With this increase in multiliteracies heaps of programs have been created for use in schools and at home. These are created in a hope to increase learning in literacy. These include things like electronic or talking books and specially designed programs for improving reading and writing.

 Electronic or talking books are digital versions of story books where a child can listen to a story through animation, music and sound effects. There are some positives with this technology in that it is very entertaining and keeps the children enthused in the story but some teachers believe that the negatives include the distraction from the text itself with too much focussed on the presentation.  Some programs that involve listening and reading in them look at different ways of reading and listening to text and answering questions in relation to this. They include different games to do with the text and are played in different ways, for example using animation and pictures to comprehend difficult words. HOME