BBC teams up with Google to launch digital revolution for young people

Title: BBC teams up with Google to launch digital revolution for young people

https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/mar/12/bbc-google-make-it-digital-tony-hall&sa=U&ei=G8QnVZ2nH4OePJuXgMAJ&ved=0CBAQFjAG&client=internal-uds-cse&usg=AFQjCNHxNA4dfGflZVX6dAPKSQOrVdgmKQ

Summary:

This article is about how the BBC director general has pledged to do for coding and digital technology what the BBC Micro did for the emerging home computing era in the 1980s. Tony Hall was speaking after he unveiled details of the BBC’s Make It Digital initiative, a partnership with 50 organisations, including Google, Microsoft and Samsung, that will give ‘micro bit’ coding devices – around 1m of them – to every 11-year-old in the country.

Facts/Phrases:

Ø  The BBC will launch a season of programmes and online activity, including a drama based on Grand Theft Auto and tie-ups with Doctor Who, Eastenders, and Radio 1. 

Ø  The BBC will also create 5,000 digital trainees as part of the project.

Opinion:

In my opinion this article shows how new and digital media has revolutionised the younger generations, and introducing them to technology at a young age so that they can be well adjusted to a time where technology is dominant.