Digi-Teens: Media Literacies and Digital Technologies in the Secondary Classroom.

Author: Reed, Kate / Burn, Andrew
Published: Cambridge, 2000
Source: http://www.nyu.edu [30.09.2003]. Originally published in: English in Education 33:3 (Autumn 1999).

Abstract

This article describes the making of a trailer for Alfred Hitchcock's 'Psycho' by a group of girls with the help of new technology. The authors explore the impact of digital technologies and media practices on learning. In an interview the girls report on their experiences while working on the trailer.

Burn, Andrew

Andrew Burn works in the School of Culture, Language and Communication at the University of London's Institute of Education. He has recently worked on a number of research projects in the Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media.