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Summary: We live in a digital multi-media age for which new skills and strategies are required. There is now a dynamic integrative relationship between new literacies and traditional literacies which changes the whole continuum. We have to grasp that the use of new literacies generates innovation and literacies from now on will be constantly changing.  Television, film and digital technologies are powerful vehicles that provide constant messages about culture, community values and identity. How do teachers use these vehicles for positive development and discernment about what, who, how and why the messages are conceived and delivered. Teachers should encourage students to be critical and discerning consumers of media technologies presented to them everyday. Most importantly, today’s youth want to design and create their own messages (objects, opinions and communities) utilising digital technologies. They are aware of the potentials of public display and avidly seek opportunities to communicate with their peers, globally and locally.