Multiliteracies refers to the many ways in which a person can be "literate". Traditionally, literacy was only thought about as whether or not someone could read and write. Today, this is only one facet of literacy, linguistic literacy. School has always had a focus on mathematical literacy, or numeracy, as well as linguistic literacy. However, it is only quite recently that technological literacy has become a part of the curriculum (O'Toole, Burke & Absalom, 2012, p.15). Social literacy (empathy) is also becoming an increasing focus, as with technological advances, more types of bullying and conflict have arisen (Marsh & Hart, 2011, p.232).
The subject of HSIE has an aim of teaching students the importance of empathy, and of understanding how people in other cultures, places and time periods might have different ways of thinking to them (Marsh & Hart, 2011, p.232). Our lessons teach children about how the Ancient Egyptians lived. It was a different place, different time and different culture; so they had very different beliefs and practices to us. This learning is done through the medium of computer based lessons, including games, quizzes, comprehension tasks, and links to other websites. Not only are the lessons teaching them to be traditionally literate and socially literate, but the lessons should further their computer literacy as well. This is Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (Lyell, 2012b). The technology is the Smartboard lesson, the pedagogy is how it is taught and the instructions given, and the content in our project is knowledge about Ancient Egypt.
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