Multiliteracies

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Computers, the internet and software has added abundant resources for learning literacy, and computers can also create a great learning environment with increased learning abilities. Children like computers and pressing buttons and will get quite involved with some educational literacy games. With computers increasingly becoming a part of our future, it is also important for children to become computer literate. There are numerous computer software products that are helpful to literacy development in early childhood. There are games to improve spelling, word association, story writing, and grammar and so on. Schools are now constantly upgrading and acquiring more computers, as they are becoming an important almost vital educational tool. With the internet now widely accessible and computer products and software becoming cheaper, literacy programs and curriculum's have been modified to incorporate these assets. By entering 'learning to read' on Google search, pages of activities and games will be listed, which makes teaching easier for the teachers and learning more fun for the students. In the modern world the internet is growing at an alarming rate, and children need to be protected from it, but at the same time children need to be able to use the internet correctly for educational purposes. The internet is now widely used for research and school projects by students, and children need to learn how to decide what data is relevant and what isn't. Susan Hill has written a paper on children and multi literacy which can be accessed through the following link. www.plsa.plain.net.au/PLSA_2005/ 2005_presentations/Susan%20Hill.pdf