Literacy has always been a social practice. But in the twenty-first century, it is a changing form due to the rapid proliferation of digital technologies. Children today need to become literate not only with print but also with a wide range of other media. And digital technologies can be highly effective tools for the teaching of literacy - even to the very young. In this short film, Open University researchers Dr Janet Soler, Professor Teresa Cremin, and Professor David Messer discuss their work with Dr Daniel Allington.
For more on children’s print and digital media literacies, see also the Multimodal Literacies in the Early Years research project, carried out at the Open University by Dr Rosie Flewitt and Dr Sylvia Wolfe.