Citizenship and Government - Projects

More Bytes: Girls and IT/multimedia in the middle years of schooling

Helen McKernan

More Bytes is a research and development project that aims to improve teaching of multimedia to teenage girls. The program is funded through the DEST program Australian School Innovation in Science Technology and Mathematics. The project responds to the declining participation of girls in ICT in secondary and tertiary education and researches the factors that influence girl's use of interactive networked muiltimedia at home and at school.

More Bytes explores how to engage female secondary students in years 8 to 10 with multimedia. Through forming a network of students from diverse backgrounds, an interactive narrative of girl’s culture across place, space and time is created. The project involves the participation of researchers, teachers, school girls, tertiary undergraduates and multimedia lecturers to provides the expertise, and experience to design and create innovative experiences for girls in multimedia.