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When will the phone? Not in the classroom!
By Beat Honegger Döbeli | Nov 30, 2009
"How would today's children mobile phone calls when they would be free for?" Is an exciting and controversial question. Assuming that mobile phone rates will fall sharply over the coming years, then the question is not so utopian as they appear at first glance.
Is it really so that only the costs discourage children, constantly and everywhere phone to call him? The project design of the iPhone project at the project school Goldau it makes other things possible in quite handy to investigate questions that neither the children of the project class nor their parents have to pay when the children call or send SMS. At least in financial terms are thus (theoretically) unlimited. But of course the children are encouraged to use the phone moderately. They have also imposed in this self-generated herein. What now looks like in practice?
After the first weekend, the children were allowed to take the phone home to which, Neff, the teacher asked the children Christian , as for the iPhone would have used:
"A third has not phoned, third only briefly, a 40 minutes and the rest 20 minutes."
'"Tell the children," says the teacher. 'Could be objected to. The children try to talk to their mobile phone usage is small, knowing that this would correspond to a desired behavior?
In the project we have detailed monthly itemized bills available to us meticulously documented each and every SMS outgoing telephone call with date, target number, and in phone calls and the duration. The chart below shows all 245 outgoing calls of the 17 children in October 2009: Any outgoing phone call is a circuit diagram represented in being the place in the chart the time and the diameter of the circle to the call specifies (duration for larger image to image, click ).
Really a lot of shows this map is not so. Clearly visible is the longest 36 minutes phone call on a Sunday evening, almost all other phone calls were of too short duration, as they are visible at all when used for timing and duration of the same scale. In the second diagram, therefore, the parties have been enlarged by a factor 10. At the same time as school hours, the yellow rectangles chart integrated into (click on graphic for larger image):
This graphic is now in a lot more meaningful. In particular, it shows that in 2009 almost never been in the classroom is the phone in October. A a lookup in the original data takes a phone call on a Friday morning from 37 seconds to light. This is for the parties did not surprise phone calls in class is not provided in the project. The graph now shows that it does not even occur. It shows something else: The teacher will be collected and blogged by the testimony of the children confirmed by hard data. The children (and the teacher ...) to report truthfully as to the use of mobile phones 
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It is also striking that the phone is much more common on Saturday than on Sunday. Why is that? Here, further investigation and additional numbers are needed. Beginning of December will be available in the November figures, which should already take greater account of everyday use, since in these figures probably many more test calls and the like should be in there.
Topics: iPhone | 1 Comment »
Nov 30, 2009 at 2:20
The telephone conversation of Friday, I can even explain: I was a student, it was the lasting lessons of the bad and I let him call home to see if someone is there when he comes home.