Stay connected, not consumed

We hope to make a change in the attitudes that we have towards are phones and raise awareness of how they can be a hinderance as they can consume us

Our Social Issue

We have chosen the issue of mobile phone use among young people today. We will look at the positive and negative effects of mobiles and how they affect our mental health. We will also investigate the governments new proposal of pouches for mobile in schools and look for alternatives

Why We Chose It

This social issue came up when the government brought in the budget and €9million was set aside by the Dept of Education Minister Norma Foley, in which she said this money would be used to provide pouches for each school so that mobile phones could be places in the pouches each day. The students would have no assess to the mobiles during the school day. We felt that this was unacceptable and we wanted to research the issue of phones and come up with our own alternatives

Our Goal

We have decided to do our project on the positives and negatives of mobile phones and how they affect our daily lives. Our goal is to raise awareness on the positives and negatives of mobile phones. We hope to compare the advantages and disadvantages of phones and how we can make the disadvantages more positive and change them for the better. We hope to make people aware of the dangers behind mobile phones and how phones can be managed better in schools to make schools safer and more enjoyable environment for students.

Our Innovative Action

We have highlighted the issues that young people may have with mobile phones. We brought in the initiative of placing our mobile phones into a box at the beginning of each class so that they will not distract us. This has been hugely successful and every teacher uses it in every class... we ran a poster campaign in the school which got people to question their mobile use and the positive and negative effects of it. we are going to make a movie /short film highlighting that we need to stay connected and not consumed

Our Impact

We have helped to highlight the dangers of mobile phones as well as highlighting how important they can be. When used properly mobile phones can help us but we need to use them to stay connected not consumed by them. The students and the teachers are working together on the issue of mobile phone use in school and this is having a positive difference in school. Our YSI project also shows that you can make a difference in school and make a positive change