Final Exam

Dear Headteacher,

I’m a member of the student council at St Georges College North, and I’m writing to you in representation of ES5 group, to ask for permission to carry on a search with staff and students about the uses of mobile phones in education.

Our aim for this research is to investigate if it is possible for teenagers to make the most of an interactive class with mobile phones. Smartphone’s can be very useful when looking for information on the Internet, but at the same time they are full of applications that can distract children from their learning. We hope to find out that the students will work well with the mobile phones in order to use other types of sources.

Our search will be based on studying how students behave if they are allowed to use a mobile phone as an educational tool during classes. They will be able to find useful information, gathering statistics about any topic studied in class, and play fun and interactive games, from their smart phone’s or any other gadget they already have. We need your permission and the staff permission to let us observe if the students use the phones in a responsible way and record the observations.

Another kind of investigation we thought of doing, is to carry a survey and understand how children’s would feel about the use of mobile phones, what would be their expectations of the class behaviour and how do they think this will have positives effect on their education. Our main questions for the survey are:

-Would you like to be allowed to use mobile phones in class?

-Do you promise to use it in a responsible way?

-How do you think this will benefit your learning?

-There is any potential negative effect you can tell us about?

After gathering all the information, the answers of the survey and the results of our observations, we have the idea of comparing them. See if the answers of the survey, (if they commit to be responsible, etc..) are reflected on their behaviour wile they are studying with any gadget.

Thank you for taking the time to read the letter and hope you find interesting our research and allow us to take it into action.

            Best regards,

                                                            Zarina Huber