Pedagogy of Multiliteracies

Don't ever forget about the power of picture books in the classroom!  I regularly use them with all primary school children. They find them engaging and more than entertaining. As students get so much of their information online and very often from Youtube, it is important that their visual literacy skills are up to scratch.

In fact the whole concept of literacy is currently in a state of upheaval. We are moving on from multimedia to hypermedia. This term is derived from hypertext and relates to how today, we not only get our information in a variety of different mediums, but we are now presenting it in multimodal forms: text, picture, videos and any number of combinations of media.  If you would like to find out more here is a very interesting paper on this concept:

Visual Literacy and the Classroom