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This potentially revolutionary change is being driven in large part by technology: it is predicted that e-book technology will give readers the power to annotate not just with text, but also with pictures. Similarly, visuals in maths and science have become increasingly sophisticated.

We need to play with media to become more effective communicators

As you learn to play with digital text, images, audio and video, you will communicate more creatively and flexibly with a wider variety of options

Although written primarily for educators, anyone who is interested in learning more about digital communication will learn something new from this book. As children, we learn to progressively make sense of our confusing world through play. The same dynamics apply to us as adults communicating with new and different media forms.

Visualizing Math"

llowing students to create their own books helps to develop visual literacy, the ability to understand, use, think or learn in terms of images.

When it comes to traditional literacy we have thousands of years of experience to draw on and thousands of generations of literates to learn from. T

Other than in the area of basic computer and Internet skills it is difficult to find agreement on exactly what digital literacy is or what needs to be learned simply because it is so heavily contextual and changing so rapidly. If textual were evolving as fast digital we would need a new grammar book each week.