A resource for students aged 7-11 that provides an overview of the development of the mobile phone, explaining how it came to evolve over four distinct generations and asking what might come next.
Developed by the ‘Out of Your Hands‘ ICT safety campaign, it can be used in conjunction with our ‘Influence of Technology’ resource, which looks at the positive and negative effects of advances in mobile phone technology.
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