Mobile Phone – Good Servant, Bad Master
 
Projekt of Medical School, Šibenik
 

Former knowledge
   In the last year's "One-Day Mobile Phone" project, we investigated how much time we spend on mobile devices and how they have become an integral part of our everyday life. Students are less social, spend less time outdoors, and show signs of dependency on mobile devices. Using mobile devices poses a threat to health, reduces concentration, causes insomnia, and leaves the consequences on the working ability of younger generations. Still, not every use of mobile devices is useless. Most of the time we spend on mobile devices is spent using virtually useless apps, which is why the cell phone is a bad master and we are „slaves“ of the device, but there are also useful and fun ways to use cell phones. That's why the cell phone can be a good and useful servant.

Objectives and results of the project
   With this project, we will try to convince participants about the bad ways to use mobile devices, to investigate the adverse effects, but also to the way the mobile phone has raised the quality of life. The project consists a research part, conducting experiments and educating peers. By surveying our school students, we will come up with data that will show us how much time we spend useless on mobile devices and how much we're getting into some bad habits. Our goal is to point out the time that could be spent on other more useful and healthy activities without using a mobile device. We will link teamwork to better explore the issue and draw conclusions. Through a short sketch, we will show situations in which each user of a mobile device is found.

Concept and methods of work
   Associate schools will meet in early September to identify and share tasks among the participants. It will also determine the content of the survey to be conducted among the peers. The survey should show how much we depend on some applications that dictate our rhythm of life, and how much our cell phone has served in certain life situations and made life easier for us. In the next phase, students will explore which useful applications can be used on a daily basis to enhance the quality of health, learning and overall life. Particularly, we will pay attention to health-friendly applications that are available to all users.
   Through October and November we will try to exchange students to arrange a short stage performance. We will try to present all the familiar everyday situations we encountered in brief sketches: Example 1 - Three people sit at a cafe table, each on their cell phone and not talk; Example 2 - The student approaches another student and asks him to take a picture of his notebook with his cell phone because he don't have part of the text which will be part of the exam. The performance would be on the E-medica gathering. Through this period, they would try and spend one day without cell phones in schools because the response to the action was weak in the previous attempt.
   In the final part of the project, by February 2020, we will try to complete another student exchange to complete the presentation, train the stage performance and finish the project. As the project has extensive theme, it is possible to continue working on the project and next season under a similar name as a continuation of the project.