Multiliteracies

In this day and age technology is an ever growing field. It is changing all the time and it’s important to keep up with the development in order to stay in touch. It is important for us as teachers, to educate children with computers particularly because they are becoming more and more important. As it states in //Hill, 2006// “computers are ‘symbol machines’ that allow young children to negotiate a complex interplay of multiple sign systems (e.g. video clips, music, sound effects, icons, virtually rendered paint strokes and text in print based documents), multiple modalities (e.g. linguistic, auditory, visual, artistic), and recursive communicative and cognitive processes (e.g. real time and virtual conversations, cutting/pasting text, manipulating graphics, importing photographs).” It is important that both digital literacies and print based literacies are used in combination for children to be able to function effectively in the 21st century. It has been found that print based reading and writing are vitally important for children to have success with the digital based contexts. home