Multiliteracies


 * Multiliteracies**

Most children now are privileged in that they are exposed to many multimedia forms such as computer games, DVDs, email, text messaging and digital photos etc. Hill (2006) explains that this has led to a new way of thinking about literacy and what it encompasses. This is where the idea of multiliteracies stems from. Educators now need to view literacy in terms of not only reading, writing, speaking and listening, but also need to include the ability to use and understand multimedia symbol forms. **
 * In order to use and understand these new technologies students are required to go beyond the traditional literacy abilities and need to have the skills to decipher, express meanings and ideas through media incorporating design, graphics and animation (Hill, 2006, p. 326). **


 * As a result of new communication technologies being introduced, meaning is now being made in ways that are multimodal. Multimodal refers to integration of written-linguistic modes of meaning with visual, audio and spatial patterns of meaning (Kalantzis & Cope, 1997) . ||