multimedia Reading

Last Wednesday, I was led to read a few articles on New York Times which demonstrates how multimedia or multi-sensory has developed in current literacy/reading. Well, those video links and "hotspot" do enhance engagement in reading, in my opinion. It absolutely holds me to read those articles longer compared with words only. We all think that pictures are more than words but here we see not only pictures, we have videos, animation, simulation, and some that I don't know how they did that. But it is no wonder a trend that what we are going to read online as a new format. Technology has made it is possible to happen.

When I think of the young readers, again, I am wondering what's going to happen to them. They may not think this is something new, or amazing, as this is their literary world, with technologies experienced everyday in their lives. But how this multimodal digital reading will challenge their cognitive development? I don't know? How it will have an impact on their reading and writing? I am not sure. What I do believe is this is what's happening now and the trend of multimodal reading will keep on going. What we have to do how to adapt to the change!