1. Mobile Phone Usage

2. Look at the following table….
Profile 1
Profile 2
Profile 3
Sends s?
Yes, at least 40 s No
Makes phone calls?
Yes, up to 2 hours a day
Up to 10mins a day
Yes, up to 20mins a day
Receives phone calls?
Yes
Takes photos?
Listens to music?
Takes videos?
Sends and receives SMS/MMS?
Very rarely
Yes, up to 20 a day
Browses the internet?
Yes, up to an hour each day
Occasionally
I want you to predict the type of person who fits each profile.

3. As a class how much do we use our phones?
Predict how much time the class collectively spends using mobile phones.
Predict the following….
What activity that takes up most/least time
the most/least popular time of day for phone usage
difference between weekdays and weekends
differences between boys and girls.

4. In this lesson students are learning about:
the role played by mobile phones in their own and others’ daily lives

5. At the end of this lesson students will be able to:
build a profile of their own and others’ mobile phone usage
compare and contrast profiles
give examples of how mobile phones are used by people in their daily lives

6. Categories of use
What do we generally use mobiles for? Can use be categorised? What would be the categories?
Examples
socialising,
entertainment,
information seeking,
communicating

7. Task
In pairs, review your completed Phone Usage Logs (Homework Lesson 2) and to group activities into the agreed usage categories.
Analyse a partner’s completed Phone Usage Log. We will build up a class profile by entering each student’s phone usage into a spreadsheet.

8. What did we find out?
Work in pairs to use the spreadsheet to analyse the class profile. How accurate were the predictions you made at the start of the lesson? Ask students to predict how an employed adult’s phone usage would vary from their own and to produce a chart to highlight differences.

9. Task
Produce a fact file giving examples of how a mobile phone can be used:
as part of a keep fit programme
to manage a health problem such as diabetes or asthma
to find out what people think
to pay for goods and services.

10. And finally
Summarise what you have learnt about your own and others’ phone usage. Were there any surprises? Do you think your phone usage will change as they get older?