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The opportunities and challenges in teaching multi literacies
Literacy vs. technology
Presentation of multimedia content is more intriguing, interactive, and engaging than traditional text-based content.
Youtube, facebook, blogs and asynchronous spaces, are all appealing to students,
It is difficult to remove their preconceived notions and practices with these mediums when transferring them to the classroom environment
Teachers may shy away from the use of multiliterate sources because they provide the opportunity for students to get lost in another “world”.
Multi literacies across the curriculum
Resources such as televisions, screens and computers should be available for teachers and students to access the Internet.
READ, WATCH AND LISTEN
Teach students how to safely discern Internet sources and articles to improve their reading comprehension levels.
Accessibility
Youth without access will not be as socially, culturally, academically, or individually fluent.
Not be able to engage with the content and material presented to them in the same way as their peers who are multiliterate.
Students who have access to an education which exposes them to multiliteracies are at a distinct advantage .
Those with access are able to establish a stronger sense of self and become more adept at making individualized decisions.
No opportunity to engage critically with online videos, documentary films, web-posted blogs or internet pod-casts.
Lack essential skills, cultural understanding and global dialogue techniques.
Transforming teacher’s role
Skills and experience needed to prepare their students for the onslaught of multiliterate messages without formal training
Engage students in discussion, critical analysis, debate, and promote a regular questioning format to bring up topics and respond to their peers in turn
Teachers have to recognize the value of multiliterate students and its benefits.
Use multiliteracies in the classroom to further engage students to let them being familiar with the approach
Equity
Materially
related to providing all children with access to new technologies.
To help students liberate
their fullest potentials.
Requires continually learning from the constellation of children’s myriad talents and interests, and having
the courage and vision to break with our own and others’ assumptions