Changing the user experience of multimedia and media literacies with kahootz

In a recent submission to the education and training committee the Australian Children's Television Foundation outlined the substancial educational and media-related benefits of the introduction of the, 'Kahootz' program in schools. Increasingly digital media technology is recognising the changing needs and expectations of young audiences. Young children are becoming media literate to social technologies and new media earlier. The ACTF suggests, 'New levels of engagement in the classroom can be achieved through television and multimedia.'

Media literacies are being reshaped and nurtured by programs like Kahootz. They are introduced to activities like world-building, multimedia software and 3D-environments, podcasting, vodcasting and storytelling. Kahootz shapes the media literacies and expectations also by a process called, 'universal collaboration.'

Universal Collaboration is a process in which a project is shaped by the input of many. Universal collaboration is at work in online communities like, 'second life,' in which thousands of users have manufactured a multi-layered, digital community with many interconnecting narratives. Kahootz engages this type of behaviour from its student users by providing an online exhibition space and forum for students