8.+Multiliteracies

**Multiliteracies**

 The development in new Medias in recent times is becoming more and more utilised to educate children on literacy. The benefit of these Medias is that child can identify with them because Medias such as the internet are becoming more prominent in homes across Australia as well as the children find them fun and exciting which grabs their attention. Teachers may even find computers, videos etc can teach a child a concept that the teacher had difficulty communicating to the child. Multiliteracies can serve as a relief for the teacher by being able to assign group of students to multiliteracies while concentrating on an individual student who may be struggling. However the down side can be students not engaging in the literacy content when unsupervised or it just distracts them completely Effective teaching would have a balance of multiliteracies, verbal communication and literature.

This video is an example of educational reading software for children and how their learning can benefit from interactive computer based programs. media type="youtube" key="lfLg4Ve-xsM&hl=en" height="355" width="425"

Video By the Rocket Reader Kids Company. Video Retrieved from [|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfLg4Ve-xsM  <span]