Our action plan

Action plan

Group member : Jenny Jae,  Katie Huang,  Tupou Ta’ufo’ou,  Lihan Liu

Topic: children using ICT

Goal: to find out if children should use ICT

Rationale: children are exposed to ICT such as computers, laptops, mobile phones and internet in their daily lives. However, some people consider ICT is not suit-able for children to assess.

How to achieve: three parts

Part one: data collection

Part two: research

Part three: conclusion and evaluation

Part one: Data collection

Method: question sheet 5-8 questions

Place:

Apple store

Reason: Apple store sells technological products such as iMac, MacBook, iPad, iPhone and we want to hear from some sellers’ points of view

Families, friends who have children at home and some child care centres

Reason: these people participate in children’s lives and they may know how high technology effect children’s lives.

Public services

Reason: there are some public places where they provide ICT devices for children, such as libraries, museums.

Example:

1, do you agree in children using high technology?

2, what are some positive effects for children using technology? What is that? why?

3, what are some negative effects for children using technology? What is that? Why ?

4. would you recommend children to use high technology?

5, do you think there are differences in the ways children use high technology if they have different cultural background or family background?

6, how important is it for children to use high technology?

7, what kinds of high technology would be useful for children?

8, if you agree them to use it, how often you recommend?

Part two: research

After we collect answers and analysis data, we begin to research on what we find and also what we think about children using high technology.

Research method : websites and books

Part three : conclusion and evaluation

We are going to write a conclusion about:

What did we find? what do we think about what we researched? did we achieve the goal? Should children use high technology or not? How often for children to use if reasonable? How about in other cultural background? Do people in other countries have different points of views? How can we do better next time?

Then complete the evaluation sheet.

NOTE: the action plan may be changed depending on the real situation.