background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9);">Multiliteracy

Abstract:

Media is evolving with new technologies offering different resources to produce better content that mixes audiovisual with the old techniques of writing. This new tools and techniques offers the chances to mix video, photos and more tools making learning better trough time.

We all need to understand new tools and modalities of learning, like video learning and visual learning in digital era, these are greater tools than ever before to communicate, resources are being adopted fast and learners are becoming producers in the same way. Tools are easy and open to use and in very little time, each user becomes a potential producer.

All this requires new ways to verify the work produced, we need to verify the origins of the content and must be capable to differentiate the content created by professionals from not professionals.

Multiliteracy theory from the 90's century based on linguistic diversity and multimodal forms of linguistic expressions and representation, is in today world maximized with the digital era, that offers users all this tools to communicate in a simple click. So education must teach not the use of this technologies which are really easy to use, education needs to teach ethics, philosophy and values, to generate better producers, not only products, that fact needs to understand the importance of ethic and human rights.

"Simulations, learning games and video learning are the expression of this technologies, that maximize the potential of learning as a game, create better environments that are less stress and more engaging for students from all ages."

There are very different needs for each target, younger students are tech born and old are less used to the use of tech tools. So very different needs for different target ranges with a same objective, take the maximum benefit of these new chances of the digital era.

New challenges are appearing in this context, the lag of regulation is a fact that gives lot of risk trough harmful content and other risk behaviors, that impacts very negatively to most vulnerable ones, children. We all have to make an effort to help children to be protected in this new environments that offers really good opportunities but also very dangerous exposure on hard and difficult content that children is not ready to manage.

So while these new tools are offering chances to improve learning that we need to expand, there are many sources of harmful content creating situations that effects the behaviors of our children, related mostly to sexual content that is putting in trouble our young and vulnerable.

"So we need to teach about respect, human rights and help to end with the gaps and inequalities to avoid all that risks."

We can be much more creative with digital tools than ever, this let us create products with a higher quality result. New tools are more visual and more playable, learning is becoming better and with a maximized impact to society, but creating better psychological environments is equally important to create better learning and motivation for all.

Website resources:

https://amandahealey2.weebly.com/multiliteracies-model.html

https://blogs.ubc.ca/etec540sept10/2010/11/14/commentary-on-multiliteracies/

https://www.languagemagazine.com/2022/11/17/multiliteracies-and-multilingual-learners/