Digital Library
to the classroom.
Interactives
Mobile Connections
The digital book contains narrated videos, stunning images, interactive activities and detailed text to help students design and implement positive actions for sustainability.
Environmental calculator
Recycling efforts — big and small have a lasting, positive affect on our environment. Enter the number of mobile phones, or the kilograms into the calculator and see the impact you made with your own eyes!
What’s In a Phone Quiz
Take a look at our interactive quiz and learn how our phones are made and the materials that go into making them work.
Useful Links
We have put together useful links and reference material for the Mobile Connections program. You will find links on the following topics relating to mobile technology personal connections, mobile tourism, mobile commerce and sustainability.
Personal Connections
Impact of mobile digital devices in schools Report
Debate on mobile phone use in the classroom Article
Office of the e-Safety Commissioner Website
E-Safety Office – The Lost Summer Game
Mobile for Development – Life Stories Video
Big solutions using cell phones Video
Without a net – The Digital Divide in America Video
Measuring Australia’s Digital Divide Report
Slow internet in regional Australia Video
Global digital inequality Website
Project Loon – Connecting people everywhere Website
Mobile Tourism
How Instagram is changing travel Article
Selfie tourism: Tourism Australia Case study Article
Tourism Research Australia Website
Attracting Chinese tourist south Article
Tourist attractions that are literally dying Article
Take an ‘isolated’ selfie while hundreds of tourists wait and watch Video
Why Norway is teaching travelers to travel Article
Norway’s natural wonders ‘threatened by ill-prepared tourists’ Article
Tourism trend Trolltunga Report
Mobile Commerce
Aussie teens and kids online Article
Australia and the world trade Website
Australia’s trade statistics at a glance
Amazon set to benefit from Australians’ love affair with online shopping
Sustainability
The world has an e-waste problem Article
What type of mobile phone hoarder are you? Video
How mobile phones are made – Oppo tour – Video
Apple Daisy robot rip apart old iphone Article
Paper beats plastic? How to rethink environmental folklore Video
Re-thinking Progress: The Circular Economy Video
Ellen MacArthur Foundation Website
Australian Product Stewardship Act
Story Hopper – Visiting e-waste paradise in Ghana Video