Mobile Phones

What issues are associated with mobile phones – what

Starter – Paired activityFeatures of mobile phones

• Rank these activities in order of energy consumption from those that use the most energy to those that use the least

• Surfing the Internet• Watching Internet TV• Talking to friends• Sending text messages• Taking photos• Using the calculator to keep tabs on finances• Using GPS to find a destination

Learning Outcomes• All students should be able to recognise

some effects of mobile phones• Most should be able to answer questions

on the effects of mobile phones on well being, health, safety, security, finance and other people.

• Some will be able to explain in detail these effects and provide a range of answers and possible solutions

Group - Key Concepts

Can you think of how mobile phones can have an effect on:

• Well being• Health• Safety• Security• Financial• Other people around you

Well being, safety and security

• Effects of using mobile phones on well being.

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ovR3FF_6us&feature=player_embedded

1. What effect could these pictures being online later on in her working life?(1 mark)

2. What is meant by cyberbullying?(1 mark)

Health and Well being

3. What is meant by Work / life balance?

1 mark

Health and Well being

4. A person has a smartphone. List 3 functions of the smart phone that can allow this person to work on the move / on the go?

(3 marks)

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Health and Well being

5. A person has a smartphone. List 3 positive and negative effects that this phone can have on his home life?

(3 marks)

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Losing your phone can have implications (8 marks)

Issue Financially Socially Security Files

Impact on the individual?

How can you safe guard

against these?

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Losing your phone can have implications (8 marks)

Issue Financially Socially Security Files

Impact on the individual?

The cost of the contract, the cost of a new phone,

insurance will increase

Unable to socialise – to lose contacts – to be off air

and incontactable

Passwords, confidential information left on the

phone, pictures,

other details

Lost images, songs, videos

that cannot be

How can you safe guard

against these?

Get insurance,

Change passwords on

social networking

sites. Backup your

contacts.

Password protect your

phone

Backup all your files so

that the phone is not

the only place to store them.

John has explained to Alice that she should use her mobile phone responsibly and not inconvenience or endanger herself and other people.

List four rules that Alice should follow in order to do this. (4)

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(2)

(3)

(4)

Rosie has an eight-year-old brother who wants a mobile phone for his birthday. Rosie’s parents are concerned that he is too young and have been thinking about the pros and cons of children owning mobile phones.(i) State four concerns Rosie’s parents may have

about young children owning and using mobile phones. (4)

(ii) (1)(2)

(3)(4)

(ii) State one situation where his parents would think it would be an advantage for him to have a mobile phone. (1)

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